Re: [cobalt-users] redundent mail server

[SM <nntp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
At 13:24 28-10-2001 -0500, Jacob Smith wrote:
>I have one raq4r that is just used for mail, and i am hoping to find the
>best way of creating a redundent mail system.

A secondary MX record and a mail server on a different machine can be used
to do that.  You will need a different setup (software/hardware) if you
want a fully redundant mail system.

>I thought about trying to copy the users over the other server then just
>adding another mx record for low proirty mail to go to that server, but I
>didnt think this would be the best way, I guess the other thing would be
>to use staqware but that would requir a raq3, instead i thought.

There is no need to copy the users over if you are going to use a low
priority MX record.

>But it really comes down to is just wanting to make sure that no mail will
>be lost.

Mail servers are usually configured to retry for a few days if the
recipient's SMTP server does not respond.

Regards,
-sm