On Monday 14 July 2008 16:45:39 fabian dacunha wrote: > how would i really know if my main primary server is down all my mails r > goin to my secondary mail server > > and when my primary is up are the mails copied back to my primary > > i did put down my mail server for abt 3 hrs cause cant keep it down for > long but did not really see anything You have a few options here. You can write, or have someone write a script which monitors the servers. You can install some of the server monitoring s/w that's available. F.ex. Zenoss. Google or check sourceforge.net for management tools. -- Bobby