Hi,

I run imail on a dedicated server currently and was wondering what i could do to prevent lost mail in the event of a server failure or downtime?

You need some space on other server where you create another copy of all the exisiting email then just do a little bit of DNS management.
You could create to MX records in your DNS settings one with high priority that points to your Imail of first server and the other with medium priority that points to your second server. In any event of first server failure the mails would look for the MX records with lower priority and would travel to the second server.

Problem with that then surely is that i then have to set up new details to collect my 'missing' emails.

Is there not a way to store it and then redeliver to the down system when it is back up?

well then i think you need to take up some third party service...don't know excatly if this is what you are looking at but perhaps the following link can help you

http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/faq.html#mx2

Well most default mta's will keep trying for up to 5 days, however if you have a backup MX the sending MTA will try the higher priority MX first, if not it will send to the 2nd MX record, that 2nd MX will hold in queue your mail until your server is back online. Once it back on line the mail will be sent back to you. Or you could issue an etrn.

Set up a second hosting site then set you mail preferences within your mx records. Since you have two different host with mail you will need to get the dns records straight. Try Ultradns.com for that.

Originally posted by cptkoi
Problem with that then surely is that i then have to set up new details to collect my 'missing' emails.

Is there not a way to store it and then redeliver to the down system when it is back up?

USR..the problem is he is not willing to take any pains to creat a backup copy on the another server. So the another server option is not really very helpful to him