Hello everyone,
Does anybody know of a company that offers a service whereby I might
be able to have my smtp mail routed to 2 different mail locations. Here is
my scenario. I would like mail coming to our domain to be sent to our ISP,
as it currently is. This mail is retrievable by webmail. I would also like
a copy of all mail sent to our exchange server. The exchange server would
be what we use for normal mail operations. However, if our exchange mail
server goes down, we would like to be able to revert to checking mail on our
ISP's webmail server, _and_ we would like that there would be a history of
all mail received even before our exchange server crashed.
You might be wondering why we might want such an elaborate fall back
mechanism. Our business operates with many very time sensitive deadlines.
Much of these deadlines revolve around emails. It would instill peace of
mind to be able to know that if our internal mail server was down for any
slightly lengthy period (fire, flood, hurricane), we would still have
immediate access to all mail, including mail we received in the weeks before
the failure.
I would also be interested in any other idea that you might have
that would have the same benefit through possibly a different method.

Thank you,
Joe Letter.

Re: smtp mail dual-homed backup by Cris

Cris
Thu Oct 14 21:25:07 CDT 2004

Do you have OWA running on your Exchange Server?
If so then all you do is have two MX records

One MX record points to your Exchange Server with a priority of 0

One MX record points to your ISP with a priority of 40
If you exchange server goes down, mail will be held at your ISP and
accessible by webmail

When your exchange server comes back up...mail will then move to your
exchange server.



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"Joe Letter" <nojunk@nojunk.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
> Does anybody know of a company that offers a service whereby I
might
> be able to have my smtp mail routed to 2 different mail locations. Here
is
> my scenario. I would like mail coming to our domain to be sent to our
ISP,
> as it currently is. This mail is retrievable by webmail. I would also
like
> a copy of all mail sent to our exchange server. The exchange server would
> be what we use for normal mail operations. However, if our exchange mail
> server goes down, we would like to be able to revert to checking mail on
our
> ISP's webmail server, _and_ we would like that there would be a history of
> all mail received even before our exchange server crashed.
> You might be wondering why we might want such an elaborate fall
back
> mechanism. Our business operates with many very time sensitive deadlines.
> Much of these deadlines revolve around emails. It would instill peace of
> mind to be able to know that if our internal mail server was down for any
> slightly lengthy period (fire, flood, hurricane), we would still have
> immediate access to all mail, including mail we received in the weeks
before
> the failure.
> I would also be interested in any other idea that you might have
> that would have the same benefit through possibly a different method.
>
> Thank you,
> Joe Letter.
>
>