[TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)

Robby Dermody robbyd at naomi.avalonent.org
Tue Jul 30 13:41:25 EDT 2002


Thanks Lisa. The server will be with a totally different provider in Boone
(different locale). I'll check your howto out.

Robby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Lorenzin" <lorenzin at 1000plus.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)


>
> > Interesting, I'm setting up another server soon and might try making it
> > a seconday MX as well.
>
> this may be belaboring the obvious, and if it is, i apologize, but - would
> the second server be on the same network as the primary MX?  if so, it
> only protects you against downtime on the primary box itself - a network
> connectivity outage will still take out both of your MXes.
>
> > The primary MX runs qmail and hosts mail for 4 or 5 domains. Does anyone
> > have a good resource on setting up a secondary MX? I'm wondering
wheither I
> > need the mirror the configuration on the secondary box, or if I can just
> > have something that blindly caches all mail delivered to the domain(s)
and
> > lets the primary MX deal with it when it comes back up.
>
> the latter.  i posted a quick howto a while ago - check the archives:
>
> http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20020318/005953.html
>
> that should at least get you started...
>
> lisa
>
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