RE: Postoffice 3.12 and SMTP routing

Christian Schmit ( cschmit@vo.lu )
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:05:50 +0100

Hi,

Thanks for the tip, but how do I configure postoffice
to act as a backup mailserver for a domain?

I know how to set up the DNS MX records, but the problem
is the postoffice setup?

Thanks,
Christian

At 02:50 PM 3/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>We do this with MX records in DNS. Our Post.Office server acts as a backup
>to the Exchange mail server on their dial in... when they are online the
>mail flows.. when they are offline the mail is queued.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian Schmit [mailto:cschmit@vo.lu]
>> Sent: Monday, March 23, 1998 2:39 PM
>> To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
>> Subject: Postoffice 3.12 and SMTP routing
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have the following situation:
>>
>> We have a customer with an ISDN LAN-LAN connection to
>> our internet POP. This means the customers ISDN router dials on
>> demand to our portmaster 3 when needed, but our portmaster 3 does
>> NOT call their router if their is traffic queued for servers on their
>side.
>>
>> This customer has his own mailserver on his LAN which is not
>> permanently connected to the internet because
>> he uses ISDN dial-on demand on his side.
>>
>> Is there a possibility to set up Postoffice 3.12 under NT
>> to collect all the mails for his domain while his server is not
>> connected to the internet, and that his mailserver collects
>> all these mails from our postoffice server when his ISDN
>> connection is up? The customers mailserver is MS Exchange.
>>
>> Is the SMTP Mail Routing Table the place to set this up?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christian Schmit
>> Visual Online sarl
>>
>http://www.vo.lu
>E-Mail: cschmit@vo.lu
>
>
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