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you could setup the following on your mx records<br />
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mx priority 10 = (the ip address of your own mail server<br />
mx priority 50 = the ip address of ISP server that hosts your domain name.<br />
when your server is off line it will collect your mail , when yours is back up pull it down using a pop3 connector
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you could setup the following on your mx records

mx priority 10 = (the ip address of your own mail server
mx priority 50 = the ip address of ISP server that hosts your domain name.
when your server is off line it will collect your mail , when yours is back up pull it down using a pop3 connector

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Thank You, will try it out.<br />
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Theo
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Hi All,<br />
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We have 1 Exchange Server here, which handles all the Internet e-mail coming into our company. &nbsp;If that server goes down, can we recover all the missing Internet e-mails in any sent to us? &nbsp;Can the ISP's DNS MX records be somehow used for this purpose?<br />
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<br />
Thanks,<br />
<br />
Theo
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Hi All,


We have 1 Exchange Server here, which handles all the Internet e-mail coming into our company.  If that server goes down, can we recover all the missing Internet e-mails in any sent to us?  Can the ISP's DNS MX records be somehow used for this purpose?


Thanks,

Theo

Exhange and e-mail failover

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions is sometimes also considered an email client, but more commonly referred to as webmail.

Internet / Email Software

A server is a computer program or a machine that waits for requests from other machines or software (clients) and responds to them. This architecture is called the client–server model. The clients may run on the same computer or may connect to the server over a network. The purpose of a server is to share data or hardware and software resources among clients. Typical computing servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.

Server Software

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.