Craig.

-----Original Message----- From: IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com [mailto:IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:05 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: [IMail Forum] True Backup Email Server

Hello All.

I was thinking on the weekend after reading a peering thread on this list. Would the following offer a true backup IMail peer server solution.

2 Machines with IMail installed and unique IP's. Both machines using a odbc source for adding and authenticating users. Both machines pointing to the same directories for mail storage. This way if I add a user using the odbc, both boxes get updated. If the first box goes down, DNS is pointing to the second as backup. Since the second box uses the same directory as the first for storage, pop3 should work fine with no email missed. SMTP will work in both instances as well. Thoughts?

Cheers Mark

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