Re: Question MX ..cjk
Constantine Koulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want my emails to go to my both emails Servers.. for backup reasons MX1 and MX2. Create mx records for both of them. If one of them should be preferred give it a lower preference than the other. Regards, Frank
RE: Question MX ..cjk
I want my emails to go to my both emails Servers.. for backup reasons MX1 and MX2. You cannot accomplish this with your MX records. If you add two or more machines as MX records, with the same priority, they will be treated like round-robin DNS entries and mail will flow to both servers...back and forth between the two, not each mail going to both. That is generally best used when you have mail relays or a similar setup where mail does not reside on the machines listed in the MX records. If one has a higher priority (lower number), it will be preferenced by outside mail systems, and will receive the majority of the mail for your domain. No matter what you do, however, there is no DNS entry that will cause an outside machine to send a message to more than one server instead of just one. Best bet for you most likely is to set up some kind of auto-forward system where each machine will send a copy to the other whenever it receives a mail. This may be a little tricky to do, but I would imagine it is possible. Or even better, maybe just use cron to automatically tar up the maildirs, or some other backup strategy. Mike Culbertson
Re: Question MX ..cjk
you should make sure that one server is configured to be a backup. there's no way to make email go to BOTH machines; if you set them to equal weights, they will (in theory) each get about half the mail. you shouldn't do this unless you know what you are doing. you could also setup one as a backup mail exchanger. for most purposes, it's better to use one MX record and one mail machine. most other mail machines will keep trying if your machine is down; whereas if the backup machine is misconfigured (which is easy to do) it will deliver to there; however if the backup machine isn't configured right, it will deliver it there instead of queuing it and delivering it to the preferred machine. basically keep it simple unless you really, really need a backup mail exchanger. doing anything involving keeping redundant copies of mail or load balancing is pretty complex to do... i would suggest just using one machine and backup regularly. w Constantine Koulis wrote: Hello. I want my emails to go to my both emails Servers.. for backup reasons MX1 and MX2. How i do that... _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
