From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 10 20:23:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDFA37B40A for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8B3NYZ14909 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:23:35 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:23:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: going from one to two mail servers Reply-To: dan@langille.org Message-ID: <3B9D4B74.16353.666F647B@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today my [New Zealand] mail server went offline for about 14 hours. Given time zone differences, it took that long before colocation staff arrived at work. I'm now considering using another box here in Ottawa as my primary mail server and relegating the NZ box to a secondary mail server. My contemplated MX setup is: IN MX 10 ottawa.example.org. IN MX 20 nz.example.org. Complicating the issue is that the mail server presently hosts several mailing lists but for the post part, the mail server does only personal mail for my own domains. I think the complicated part is the mailing lists, especially when it comes to archives. I am considering leaving all the mailing lists on my NZ server (as most of the list users are located there) and changing the mail list address from list@example.org to list@lists.example.org, thus ensuring all list email goes to one server. At present, I POP my mail off the mail server. I had initally thought of merely continuing to pop mail but just off both server. Does anyone have suggestions/comments etc about this whole idea? FWIW: At home I have a static IP on a cable connection with more boxes here I can use. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message