Whats a good failover idea for qmail? We have another office about 20 miles away - I was thinking of getting a static IP on that DSL connection, and deploying a linux/qmail setup with the same domains/email accounts as the main server, and adding it as a backup MX record in DNS, but it seems to me there should be a better way. Any idea's?
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There are a lot of services where, for a nominal fee, they'll act as your backup MX service. If you think you're going to start adding fees to your email program I'd take a look at finding someone (or a local ISP?) who could take up the slack.
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No particular suggestions, you'll need to do your own DD.
All you'd need to do is add their mail server as an MX with a higher number (lesser priority) than your current servers. Their email servers would get configured to accept email for your domain(s) and would forward on to your mail server as appropriate.
Example of vendors:
D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting
All you'd need to do is add their mail server as an MX with a higher number (lesser priority) than your current servers. Their email servers would get configured to accept email for your domain(s) and would forward on to your mail server as appropriate.
Example of vendors:
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I thought that's what you wanted. Typically the backup mail services are forwarders who don't provide any direct user access. This allows for mail delivery in cases where your email server goes down.
It is much more challenging to build a redundant mail server architecture, particularly so in your example where you're using two different facilities/networks.
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It is much more challenging to build a redundant mail server architecture, particularly so in your example where you're using two different facilities/networks.
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