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

["Erica Douglass" <erica@xxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Golding
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 3:10 PM
To: 'cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] How do you setup cobalts to act as secondary
mailservers?


cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx asked 
 "How do you setup cobalts to act as secondary mailservers?"

www.mailfail.co.uk
uses 2 raqs for secondary/tertiary mx
2 diff datacentres
2 diff bandwidth providers

a domain is setup mx 
high - www.domain.com
low mailfail1.othellotech.net
verylow mailfail2.othellotech.net

on mailfail1 and 2 add "relay for this domain" in gui
*dont* add the domain in vsites on either

mail gos as normal, when high mx is down, queues on mailfail1, if that
geos
down , queues on mailfail2
mailfail1 comes back up sendmail on mailfail2 "pushes" the mail to the
next
highest available mx (mailfail1)
when the domain comes back up sendmail on mailfail1 "pushes" the mail to
the
next highest available mx (domain)

Simple ;)
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Does this work for Exchange too? For instance, could I have a RaQ
queueing mail for an Exchange server in case the server goes down... or
do I need to have another Windows box also running Exchange?

Thanks,
Erica Douglass
Lead Web Developer
Simpli, Inc.