Missing smtp mail from ISP when broadbandl is down
From: "Parl"
Subject: missing smtp mail from ISP when broadbandl is down
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:26:27 -0000
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
ISP delivers mail to out static IP (can specify mx records myself if i
want)
Asked ISP why i was losing mail they said .....
"You should connect to the autoturn server (finger autoturn@blahblah.net) as this is where mail is stored when you are not on-line.
How do i set this up on our sbs 2003 box, thanks
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From: "Matt Gibson"
Subject: Re: missing smtp mail from ISP when broadbandl is down
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:01:57 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
What I'd do instead, is go to dns.widge.net (http://dns.widge.net) and get a backup mail server.
Basically, you put a second MX record in, with a higher priority (sounds backwards, and it is). This MX record points to the backup mail server. If your primary can't be reached, it forwards it to the secondary. The secondary checks every hour or so to see if the primary's back online, then dumps all the mail over. We use this on ALL our SMTP clients.
-Matt
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From: "Parl"
Subject: Re: missing smtp mail from ISP when broadbandl is down
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:58:58 -0000
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
Thanks Matt,
Got this from our ISP ...
"if your mail server is offline, any mail sent will be queued on our autoturn server, which you will need to dequeue using finger"
Is this to do with secondary MX you mentioned or a setting within exchange?
Thanks
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From: "Matt Gibson"
Subject: Re: missing smtp mail from ISP when broadbandl is down
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:19:32 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
That sounds more like an ISP thing. I'm 99% sure you can't get Exchange to automagically finger a mail server to dequeue mail. I'd use the widge thing just so it's automatic.
-Matt
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Damn than niggling 1% of uncertainty! For a complete correction see the following URL:
http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/dequeue.asp