Re: backup mail server

["Christopher Giroir" <user=1544@nabble.blu.org>]

 I've used keepalived to have a virtual IP that two (vm's in our case) 
systems use. So when one system goes down, the virtual ip goes to the 
other system. Works great. 

Chris 

On Dec 6, 2007 10:34 PM, Dave Peters <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Hello all, 
> 
> Any suggestion for backup mail server? I try to find 
> out any solution to setup a backup mail sever. 
> Here is what I want: 
> 1. I have setup a sendmail mail server. 
> 2. If we have network or mail server problem, we want 
> to change the MX record and redirect the traffic to 
> another mail server to queue the mail only. When the 
> network or mail server is coming back, we then follow 
> the mail back to original server. Our ISP doesn't have 
> this option, so we want to build another mail server 
> to do this mail queue. 
> I don't know if it is possible or what kind the setup 
> should be? so I am looking anyone can help or give 
> suggestion? 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Dave 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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