3 mail servers on one domain

[Joseph S D Yao]

Michael J. Hartwick, VE3SLQ, transmitted:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Christian Krackowizer wrote:
> > well, if you add 3 MX records, you will have to manage accounts for
> > all users on all 3 machines.  better, just use 1 MX for one machine
> > and on this machine use sendmail's (or other SMTP server's) 'alias'
> > file to distribute to the desired machines. 
> > 
> > Christian Krackowizer
> 
> Better not tell my network that I need to maintain accounts on all
> servers.  I have three MX records with varying priorities and the two
> with the highest priority (least prefered) don't have accounts for
> any of my users.  They will queue and relay the email to the real
> mail server.
> 
> Now I think you have the right method to handle what the original
> poster wanted.  I haven't done that so I can't say for sure.

Respond to what was written, which was, that he would have to "manage"
accounts for all users on all 3 machines.  I "manage" accounts for all
users on my firewalls, NOT by having any accounts on the firewalls, but
by forwarding e-mail in to whichever mail server is appropriate.  Those
mail servers then further subdivide e-mail as further appropriate.

;-)

I think what we are ALL saying is that any server named in an MX record
must be able to "manage" ALL e-mail addressed to that domain.

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