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Re: [cobalt-users] MX Records and failover servers



Jay Fesco wrote:

> Jeff - Thanks.  That's exactly what I needed.  I need it to sit in
> queue on the Raq until the primary (external) mail server is
> available, so I'll leave the field blank.  In an emergency
> (i.e. Primary server is going to be down for hours) I will
> populate the Email Server field with 'mail2.whatever.com'
> and just deal with the 'email staying on the server if originating
> from the website' issue.

If you populate the email server field with mail2.whatever.com that will
cause all incoming email to bounce unless you've set up mailboxes; you'd
be better off leaving it blank; the mail will just queue on the second
server until the backup server is back online.

Jeff
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