Secondary SMTP Server | The Perimeter

Hi All,

We have a number of clients (20+) all running SBS 2003 Running Exchange, MX record pointing to the server's e-mail OK.

This is what I'm thinking, just need some feed back if it's possible....

Setup a Windows Server 2003 Have the SMTP running, set our customers secondary MX record to that mail server.

Would the e-mail be queued if there Mail server wasn't avaiable for some reason?

Thanks

michaelsainz

I'm assuming this is for disaster recovery, right???

How are you going to sort through the mail for each domain? I mean...you could parse through the actual SMTP email...each and every single one of them. Even programatically its kinda disgusting...but I suppose doable.

I think a better idea (and one that makes you money) is that you become a reseller of either MS Exchange Hosted Services, Postini, MX Logic or others. Let them worry about the disaster recovery stuff. *shrugs*

Hope this helps!

KryptosKiller

In reply to michaelsainz

#Jun 17th, 2008 @ 8:50 PM

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, you see if we lose the internet connection then the customer gets not e-mail.... (ADSL) I'm in the UK.

Yeah that was my issue, like you say how do you filiter between domains.

Humm, host services.

Currently were asking ISP's to be the secondary MX as if the SBS Server fails for what ever reason, the the ISP shoukd queue the mail and delivered when the SBS box comes back up. The issue with this is alot of mail servers time out after a couple of hours....

So could we have the hosted exchange as our secondary backup server....

ye110wbeard

In reply to michaelsainz

#Jun 17th, 2008 @ 8:50 PM

Yeah I like the Exchange Hosted idea myself. It's easy to setup and pretty cost effective. Nice bonus if your link is dead (Depending on the package they buy) they can get a buffer on their email and webmail access to it.

Plus like the other fellow said, leave the Disaster recovery to EHS. Frontbridge has a really nice setup to avoid downtime. Smiley