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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 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
>
> now this is where I am lost now if someone could give me the low down I would
> appericate it.
>

A backup mailserver, will queue the mail until 'the' mailserver is back on
line.

You do need the two mx records,

you also need to tell mail2 to relay for the domains (ip addresses)
on mail1

Gerald
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