Second Server

Jan-Peter Koopmann Jan-Peter.Koopmann at SECEIDOS.DE
Tue May 25 10:07:34 IST 2004


On Dienstag, 25. Mai 2004 10:26 Mike Norton <mike.norton at JOBSITE.CO.UK>
wrote:

> We have put together a new mail system using MailScanner however we
> would like to change the setup so that we can have two servers
> sharing the load (equal MX priority) however we only want our users
> to connect to one machine to collect pop mail what is the best way of
> doing this ?    

I fail to see the problem. You pop mail will not reside on both servers
I suppose but only on one server. Since MUAs should not use MX entries
for POP requests you do not have a problem. You will probably assign an
A record to the POP server and put that name in the MUA.

Regards,
  JP

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