On November 25, 2001 10:22 pm, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
At 06:28 ¤U¤È 2001/11/25 -0800, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Ronald Wiplinger (ronald@elmit.com) [011125 17:29]:
I know that I can setup different MX records for the mail exchange, but
how
do I resubmit or fetch the mails to the original mail server
automatically,
as soon as this server is available again?
Example:
MX 0 mail.abc.com MX 10 mail-backup.abc.com MX 20 mail-backup.otherside.com
It would mean, that the mails will come to mail.abc.com, except the server is down (or even overloaded), If so, the next mail server would be used: mail-backup.abc.com, of if the entire site has a problem the mail-backup.otherside.com
And there they are !!!! and there they stay !!!! However, the normal user is not checking mail-backup.abc.com or mail-backup.otherside.com Actually, I not even want that the mails on these machines would be sort in into mailboxes for the users, ... it should be just here in a queue to delivery to mail.abc.com as soon as possible.
You need to setup the two backup servers to send forward any mail for mail.abc.com on . I think you need to edit /etc/mail/mailertable and rebuild it. But it's getting late. Nick