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Pingu
12-02-2001, 11:40 AM
I have a website running on another server, and now I'd like to set up a secondary mailserver on my raq3 for that website.

I thought off fumbling with a catch-all email account, but there must be a better way to do this, I guess

Anyone knows?

Chicken
12-02-2001, 01:12 PM
Add a second MX record for that domain pointing to whatever server you want to use for the mail, with a higher priority than the primary mailserver MX record.

Wait, this might not be what you want... can you explain exactly what you are trying to do, need?

Pingu
12-02-2001, 03:59 PM
The goal is pretty simple:
Add a second mailserver in case the first one is offline.

And what I want is for the secondary server to automatically forward all the mail it received to the primary server

With a catch-all account on the secondary I can set up the primary server to collect the mail, but I want it the other way round :)