RE: [cobalt-users] How do you setup cobalts to act as secondary mailservers?

["Erica Douglass" <erica@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Erica Douglass
Lead Web Developer
Simpli, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 1:51 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How do you setup cobalts to act as secondary
mailservers?

On Thursday 15 May 2003 15:55, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:
> -snip-
> But can I setup additional RAQ servers to accept mail and relay to the
> primary, so that OUR network accepts the mail for the client and
continues
> to try and deliver it?

I have a Qube2 in a different data center that assumes the task as my 
secondary mail server.
Set the lowest numerically nameserver as the primary mail server (where
you 
actually want the mail delivered. (highest priority)
Set a higher numerically secondary mail server that will catch and
forward 
email that the primary could not handle. (lowest priority)
On the secondary mail server, set it up to accept email for the domains
it is 
to handle.
That's it!

Gerald

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Hi Gerald,

I'm actually curious about this as well. What you're explaining is how a
RaQ can be set up to handle secondary email for the domain -- but what
happens when the first server comes back up? Does the secondary RaQ know
how to transfer the email that it gathered back to the first RaQ? Is
this an automatic process, or does someone have to log in and manually
transfer email back to the first server when it comes back up?

I have a feeling I just don't understand this completely, so if you
could go a bit more in-depth on how this works, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Erica Douglass
Lead Web Developer
Simpli, Inc.