Re: What happens to my email if I lose internet connection? by Brian
Brian
Thu Aug 19 12:25:13 CDT 2004
>-----Original Message-----
>On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:54:11 -0700, "Brian"
<bkimball@designetics.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Sorry for the newbie question but I searched online and
>>found nothing. What do I need to do to make sure I
don't
>>lose email when I restart my server or if we lose
>>internet connection? I assume I have to set something
up
>>with my ISP but I don't want to sound stupid when I
call
>>them:-) Also, when I pushed Outlook 2003 to the users
on
>>the network, it imported all there contacts and email
but
>>when the users type in the To: field the addresses do
not
>>auto complete!?!? Is there a way around this? Thanks
>>and sorry again for the newbie questions! Brian
>
>1st.
>When you reboot a server or lose the Internet connection
any server
>wanting to send you a message will find out you're
unavailable and
>either send to the secondary address or just set a wait
timer and try
>again. Typically servers will give it a couple of days
worth of
>retries at various intervals (you can check this for
yourself on your
>own properties of the smtp virtual server). Once it
comes back up,
>mail will start flowing.
>I alluded to a secondary address. If you want you can
ask the ISP to
>set up another MX record and point it at their fallback
mail
>relay/server boxes. I've done an nslookup on designetics
and there is
>only your primary. Some ISP's do a secondary by default.
>
>2nd.
>The autocomplete is nothing to do with what's in your
contacts. The
>autocomplete is driven by the contents of the NK2 file.
As your users
>select recipients or type them in manually, the NK2 file
will capture
>the data and start autocompleting eventually.
>
>.
>
Mark, Thanks for the quick reply! Your email was exactly
what I was looking for! Thanks again, Brian