Davide,
Are you saying the secondary should get mail first and then relay to primary??? If secondary MX less than (lower) than primary that's what will happen. Or did you mean less than as in less in the ranking. ie MX primary is 10 and MX secondary is 20, is that what you meant? Bill >---------- >From: Davide Libenzi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:36 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [xmail] Re: Backup Xmail servers > > >On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Quost Support wrote: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> We have Xmail on our 'primary' mail server (W2k), which manages the bulk of >> the email. >> However, we also need a 'secondary' or 'backup' mail server. >> >> When we installed Xmail on our RH Linux server, we noticed that the folder >> structure (in the users mailbox) was different - so we gave up that idea. >> Currently we have Xmail running on a second W2k server. >> The DNS MX records have been configured with different weights for the two >> servers. >> >> However what I'd like to know, is how to get any messages that are >> delivered to the backup server (if the primary server goes down) sent to, >> or through, the primary server. >> We have only the address of the primary server configured in mail clients, >> so the backup server needs to send the mail to the primary server when it >> is back online, or the messages never actually get delivered. > >setup the backup server with MX < of the primary one and use custom >domains with smtprelay lines. > > > >> Btw, Thankyou Davide for xmail-1.9-pre03, I hope you still had time to >> watch the soccer. > >Yes, of course ... but the real "game" for me is tomorrow morning 4:30 AM >(PST) :-) > > > > >- Davide > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
