[BlueOnyx:05264] Re: Secondary mail server

Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com
Fri Aug 20 10:49:57 -05 2010


> Gary Sedgwick schrieb:
>> When I say the two boxes will be configured identically, I meant in terms
>> of vsites/users.  The DNS would be unique for each though, with the high
>> priority MX record pointing to the main mail server for each domain, and a
>> lower priority MX record pointing to the server configured as "secondary
>> mail server".  I'm hoping the mail would always end up at the primary
>> server (and hence the mailboxes) in this scenario due to using the higher

The issue you will come up against is that some email will be delivered 
to the mbox on one system, and other email delivered to the "secondary" 
system.  You don't want to have 2 servers running a mailbox for the same 
user.

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