{"id":240,"date":"2012-05-03T00:54:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxrs.com.br\/?p=240"},"modified":"2012-05-03T00:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:55:16","slug":"configuring-zimbra-as-a-secondary-backup-mx-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clusterweb.com.br\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Configuring Zimbra As A Secondary \/ Backup MX Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lets assume that we have two mail servers<\/p>\n<p><strong>primary.mailserver.com<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>secondary.mailserver.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What we ultimately want is secondary.mailserver.com to accept, store ( and forward ) mail for primary.mailserver.com when it goes down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On secondary.mailserver.com from within the administration console add the domain in question you are configuring. From console on secondary.mailserver.com run the following commands as user zimbra<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>zmprov md domain.com zimbraMailCatchAllAddress @domain.com<\/em><br \/>\n<em> zmprov md domain.com zimbraMailCatchAllForwardingAddress @domain.com<\/em><br \/>\n<em> zmprov md domain.com zimbraMailTransport smtp:primary.mailserver.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In DNS your primary mail server should have a lower weighting ( 1 in this example ) then your secondary (10) and should look something like this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[root@mailhost ~]# dig mx mailserver.com<\/p>\n<p>; &lt;&lt;&gt;&gt; DiG 9.7.3-P3-RedHat-9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.1 &lt;&lt;&gt;&gt; mx mailserver.com<br \/>\n;; global options: +cmd<br \/>\n;; Got answer:<br \/>\n;; -&gt;&gt;HEADER&lt;&lt;- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43716<br \/>\n;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0<\/p>\n<p>;; QUESTION SECTION:<br \/>\n;mailserver.com.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0IN\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0MX<\/p>\n<p>;; ANSWER SECTION:<\/p>\n<p>mailserver.com.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a03600\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0IN\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0MX\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a010 secondary.mailserver.com.<br \/>\nmailserver.com.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a03600\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0IN\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0MX\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01 primary.mailserver.com.<\/p>\n<p>;; Query time: 104 msec<br \/>\n;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)<br \/>\n;; WHEN: Fri Jan\u00a0 6 15:02:06 2012<br \/>\n;; MSG SIZE\u00a0 rcvd: 72<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lets assume that we have two mail servers primary.mailserver.com secondary.mailserver.com What we ultimately want is secondary.mailserver.com to accept, store ( and forward ) mail for primary.mailserver.com when it goes down. &nbsp; On secondary.mailserver.com from within the administration console add the domain in question you are configuring. 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