Options for backup / redundancy

[Matt Pryor <pr...@international-presence.com>]

Hi there

We currently run James 3.0.1 on a single server.

Does anyone have experience setting it up on multiple servers for
redundancy?

Ideally we would like to use one as a primary SMTP server, but in case that
is unavailable we can reroute to the other one using failover logic on the
mail client side.

Obviously they will have different IPs so we'll need to amend MX records to
permit mail from either.

Can the backup server be configured to send incoming mail to the primary
one?

Any tips or best practices would be very much appreciated.

Matt


-- 
Matt Pryor
Software Developer

The International Presence Group of Companies
EMAIL: pryor@presencebpm.com
URL: www.International-presence.com

Re: Options for backup / redundancy

[Matthieu Baechler <ma...@apache.org>]

Hi Matt,

What you are refering to looks like a "backup MX" (you configure a
second MX with a lower priority).

You can do it with any SMTP server and you probably can handle that
with James if needed.

I didn't tried that setup yet.

Cheers,

-- 
Matthieu Baechler

On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 11:44 +0000, Matt Pryor wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> We currently run James 3.0.1 on a single server.
> 
> Does anyone have experience setting it up on multiple servers for
> redundancy?
> 
> Ideally we would like to use one as a primary SMTP server, but in
> case that
> is unavailable we can reroute to the other one using failover logic
> on the
> mail client side.
> 
> Obviously they will have different IPs so we'll need to amend MX
> records to
> permit mail from either.
> 
> Can the backup server be configured to send incoming mail to the
> primary
> one?
> 
> Any tips or best practices would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 


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