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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:43:02 +0100
From:      Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk>
To:        Blaz Zupan <blaz.zupan@medinet.si>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mail distribution
Message-ID:  <1.5.4.32.19970423134302.006fc1b4@wrcmail>

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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.
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