Koozali.org: home of the SME Server

Contribs.org Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: kryptos on March 03, 2008, 05:49:45 AM

Title: SME server as Backup Mail server
Post by: kryptos on March 03, 2008, 05:49:45 AM

Hi all,

Is there any problem if i make SME server as my backup email server?  Would users still able to collect mails to this server if the primary mail goes down?

Regards,
Rocel

Title: Re: SME server as Backup Mail server
Post by: dmcguire on March 13, 2008, 04:44:16 PM

You may know this already, but just in case...

Google for SME backup MX and the first item is How to configure a SME server as a secondary SMTP server (or MX-Backup) which should answer some of your question.

Title: Re: SME server as Backup Mail server
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 13, 2008, 04:51:59 PM

Quote from: dmcguire on March 13, 2008, 04:44:16 PM

Google for SME backup MX and the first item is How to configure a SME server as a secondary SMTP server (or MX-Backup) which should answer some of your question.

NO, that won't satisfy kryptos' queries. Backup MX servers are an automated temporary holding area for messages in transit. They aren't an alternative site that users can go to to collect their email.

Title: Re: SME server as Backup Mail server
Post by: dmcguire on March 13, 2008, 05:23:34 PM

OK... I mis-understood the original post. Sorry!

Title: Re: SME server as Backup Mail server
Post by: thomasch on March 14, 2008, 03:22:31 AM

Quote from: kryptos on March 03, 2008, 05:49:45 AM

Is there any problem if i make SME server as my backup email server?  Would users still able to collect mails to this server if the primary mail goes down?

Rocel,

Search 'DRBD' or 'heartbeat' in forums..
actually it is not only a mail backup solution but also a high availability server solution.

But, CMIIW, I am afraid it is not implementable yet for SME7x..

thomasch

Title: Re: SME server as Backup Mail server
Post by: kryptos on March 17, 2008, 07:10:32 AM

Hi,

Actually this is what happen. We have an email server hosting different domain name on the same server. One of our customers ask if possible that they could make their email domain(currently hosted on our server) as their backup mail server because they have plans to put a Primary Email Server on their office. All accounts are still in the on the current server. What we did is to reconfigure the DNS server and pointing MX record with priority 10 to the new Primary Email Server IP address and Slide the current Email Server to priority 20. With this they were able to collect mails when there new email server are down. I don't know what implications on our server with this kind of setup. My only concern is if spam filtering still functions this way.


Regards,
Rocel