RE: [cobalt-users] Secondary MX

["Paulick, Jim" <jpaulick@xxxxxxx>]

secondary mx records are used for the same reason as secondary dns servers.

they are only used when the first one fails, they are not an option.

if you have two entries for mx records, the first one (or the one with higher priority, will always be used, unless it is down)

you can have the new accounts go to a different domain and then they can be sent to your place instead of the HQ of the company.

but if you want to keep the current domain, you will only have one mx record for that domain, so it either has to go to one place, or another.  

i may be full of it...

i'm sure someone will correct me if I am.


-----Original Message-----
From: Oger [mailto:oger@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:45 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] Secondary MX


Greetings list...

Background:  I have a customer with a worldwide presence.  They use their
corporate network to host everything EXCEPT www, which I provide for them.
Now their local office would like to have some authority over their e-mail
as well.  They want to have the home office handle all the existing mail,
and have us handle new e-mail accounts they set up.  They do NOT want to
migrate all their accounts to us, but for setting up new accounts we are
much more responsive than their IT department.

Here's my question:  If I have their IT dept. set up an MX record with the
name of our host (I guess we'll need an A record, too) and then if an e-mail
is sent to an address that is not sent to the mailserver at Headquarters,
will it fall to ours?

Thanks!

--Chris


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