First, you need to tell that new machine that it needs to accept mail for the same domains, and that it should forward it to the primary mail server, when available. Second, you need to set up a second MX record in your DNS zone, with a higher number than the primary MX, so that the world knows where to try to send mail when the primary MX is down. On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Nilesh wrote: > Hello > > Can anyone please tell me how to create Secodary Mail > Server out of our premisess. > if the main server is down so mail drop down on > secondary server > I have installed Sendmail + DNS on the same machine > > Thanks > Nilesh > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
