Re: [cobalt-users] Backup E-mail service on raq4

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<twooly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK I searched the archives and couldn't find a solid answer and was hoping
> someone could help.  Basicly what I want to do is have a backup email
server
> when the primary is down.  I figured out how to do the DNS server as a
> secondary but can't get the email.
> I have two raq4s in different datacenters.  I have one serving as the
primary
> for websites, email, and dns.  Now I want to have the second one take over
in
> case the primary dies.  I only care about email at this point I can work
on the
> others later.
>
> I created two mx records of
>
> mail.domain.com and mail2.domain.com

Setup machine 2 to relay mail for email for the desired domains (can do
through the GUI) and make sure the MX for machine2 is lower priority.

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