Fedora X as imap server mx0? Workable?

[Frank Murphy (Frankly3d)]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) writes:
> 
>> Would Fedora X(Current)
>> work as an imap server
>> with a CentOS as a backup mx.
>> (for those upgrade moments)
>> Maybe a crossover cable to keep mails synced?
> 
> Perhaps you should explain exactly what you're trying to accomplish. 
> Everything up until the last sentence was ok. The last sentence makes no 
> sense whatsoever.

You are right it was confusion\lack of knowledge.

> 
> Fedora will work fine as an IMAP server. CentOS will also work fine as a 
> backup MX, however it appears that by "backup MX" you mean something 
> else than what everyone else thinks "backup MX" is.
> 
> A backup MX is a mail server listed with a higher-valued (lower 
> priority) MX record in DNS, which senders would contact if they are 
> unable to reach the primary MX server. When the primary MX server is 
> back up, the backup MX would forward mail it has queued up to the 
> primary MX (or the backup MX would have its own parallel delivery path 
> to the destination mailbox).

You have answered it here, what I was thinking incorrectly.

> 
> And none of this has anything to do with neither IMAP, nor a "crossover 
> cable", which itself could mean several different things -- a CAT 
> ethernet cable that's wired in the crossover configuration on both ends 
> of it, 

It was this., which seems to be redfundant, by previos answer.

Frank

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