Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:21:30 -0500 From: 'Denny Reiter' <denny@reiters.org> To: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com> Cc: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <20021007202130.GL30821@reiters.org> In-Reply-To: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEF26@XMB03CRDGE> References: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEF26@XMB03CRDGE>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:12:30PM -0400, Lapinski, Michael (Research) wrote:
> No need to try to have a mail server that will
> automatically failover to get the old boxes ip
> and what not. That is what MX records and priorities
> are for (and they work quite well).
> You may also want to have your secondary mx be
> at a different physical location than your primary mail
> server. (usually the network fails before the hardware,
> if built right)
I didn't think we were discussing MX records. That's fine for
incoming mail to your users, but does nothing to help your users
send or receive mail. And while having separate physical locations
would be great for network failures, how are you going to keep the
mail spools in sync?
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