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Re: [cobalt-users] MX Records and failover servers
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] MX Records and failover servers
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu May 23 11:45:10 2002
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
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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