Basically, you just install NTMail on the backup machine into a bogus
domain like backupmail, then set it to deliver mail to the primary if =
user
not found then add your real domain to treat as local.
Then in the DNS for the mx records you add primary as 10 and backup mail
server as 20 (you can use other numbers of course) and it should work =
like
a charm....the backup mail server holds mail if the primary is down and
keeps trying for as long as you set it to try.
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 17:33:54 -0500, Mike Topalovich so eloquently wrote:
>So basically, you don't have to tell NT Mail to not try and resend the
>queued mail locally, as it does it automatically? Do you have the MX
>priority of the NT Mail server set greater than 10?
>
>I would just download the trial mice elf, but it never works right when
>I do.
>
>Thanks for the info.
>
>
>Mike
>Topalovich@TerraGlyph.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale E. Reed Jr. [SMTP:daler@iea.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 1997 3:49 PM
> To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
> Subject: Re: Domain queueing and NT mail servers
>
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Mike Topalovich wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a mail server for NT that has the domain
>queueing
> > function similar to that in Sendmail 8.8.5. I want the NT
>mail server
> > to be able to accept SMTP mail as a lower-priority MX than a
>primary
> > server if the primary server is unavailable, and then deliver
>the queued
> > mail when the primary server is available again.
> >=20
> > Any ideas? I'm stumped at this point.
>
> NTMail does this without any changes. I do it for my NTMail
> server (we have one at the office also) at home when
> my ISDN is down. Works great.
>
> Dale
>
>
>
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