Smart Business Lists wrote:
>  ...
> See the IMAIL knowledge base articles for setting up backup mail server
> in any case for detailed instructions.  Generally you have to:
>  ...
> 3) edit your hosts file on backup server so that the domain being baked
> up routes to the primary
>
> I think it is this ability to manipulate the host file that makes imail
> such a nice product to use as a backup.  When the primary comes back
> online then the IMAIL secondary sends the queued mail to the primary
> using the route in the host file.   ...

I don't understand what you're getting at here.  There should be no
need to edit the hosts file on either of the two SMTP servers, DNS
lookups will resolve a FQDN to a IP address.

--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]     "The avalanche has already started, it is too
Rod Dorman              late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh


Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html 
to be removed from this list.

An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/

Reply via email to