Thanks Scott
i did actually down my primary server n w8ed n got the mail which was sent
but actually did not see the header from my secondary mail server
i will test it again
really apprecitte
thnks once again
regards
fabian
> on 7-14-2008 1:45 PM fabian dacunha spake the following:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have been using centos 5.1 for quite some time as out DNS and mail
>> server
>> and been workin fine
>>
>> i use sendmail as my mail server
>>
>> i did setup a backup mail server as per docs and ran th dns test from
>> http://www.checkdns.net
>>
>> and it says both the mail servers are fine
>>
>>
>> but i would like to know the following
>>
>> how would i really know if my main primary server is down all my mails r
>> goin to my secondary mail server
>>
>> and when my primary is up are the mails copied back to my primary
>>
>> i did put down my mail server for abt 3 hrs cause cant keep it down for
>> long but did not really see anything
>>
>> also are there any websites that can chec both my mail servers correctly
>>
>>
>> apprecite and thnaks
>>
>>
>>
>>
> A real simple test would be to bring down the primary and send yourself
> something from an outside address like yahoo or gmail. give it 10 or 15
> minutes, bring the primary up and when you see the message to yourself, it
> should have a header from your backup server also.
>
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