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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:50 pm, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 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, 
I think the mail will queue up for 4 days maximum and then it will bounce, 
unless the default configuration is changed. (isn't that correct?)

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