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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 11:58:41 2002
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Does this mean that the primary mailserver can send an ETRN message to the
> raq, and the raq would respond to this by sending the messages in its queue
> to the primary mail server?
While it CAN, this isn't the point of my post, nor is it necessary. The
lower-priority mail-server will continue to try the higher-priority
server. When the higher-priority server is again available, those tries
will work.
ETRN is better suited for (and I believe designed for) servers that are
intended to be offline more than they are online, and to get email from
a higher-priority server. Setting up ETRN requires some changes to
sendmail; I'd look around at "http://www.sendmail.org/"; for more
information if I were interested in using ETRN.
Jeff
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