From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 23 13:12:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20779 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sys3.cambridge.uk.psi.net (sys3.cambridge.uk.psi.net [154.32.106.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20772 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net (uucp1.mail.uk.psi.net [154.32.105.26]) by sys3.cambridge.uk.psi.net (8.8.4/) with ESMTP id VAA23632; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:12:05 +0100 (BST) Received: by sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net (8.7.5/SMI-5.5-UKPSINet) id UAA28640; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:46:17 +0100 (BST) Received: from infodev.nadt.org.uk (infodev.nadt.org.uk [194.155.224.205]) by charlie.nadt.org.uk (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA22755; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:55:47 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970423134302.006fc1b4@wrcmail> X-Sender: robmel@wrcmail X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:43:02 +0100 To: Blaz Zupan , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Robin Melville Subject: Re: Mail distribution Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 16:10 22/04/97 +0200, Blaz Zupan wrote: >One topic that I don't think was covered here is mail >distribution. How do you guys distribute mail to different >servers? Let's say you have two servers and one of them >goes down. How would I redirect all mail handling to >this second machine? ... If your mail server goes down and you have a standby, the obvious thing to do it to change your nameserver(s) to point to the replacement machine... obviously you use a virtual machine name (eg mail@medinet.si) Rob. -------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction & Forensic Information Service Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team (Extn. 49178) Vox: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 Email: robmel@nadt.org.uk WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt/ ---------------------------------------------------------