Guy Barrette

Excellent!  The Priority 0 for my mail server is the winner.  

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Hi!

When I try to set my priority to "0" it doesnt work with the control panel Im using. I can only set it to "1". Will it still work setting that valu instead?

PS: Very nice tutorial

currently our building is black out. no electricity. totally black out. How do I set so it can receive both  in office mail server and in google apps? What value shout I set for this redundant purpose?

thanks

It does not work for me. This is what I see when I set my server to 0 (also tried other sequences):

Your current MX records contain incorrect value(s):

MX Server address Priority

205.206.xxx.xxx. 0

aspmx.l.google.com. 1

alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. 5

alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. 5

aspmx2.googlemail.com. 10

aspmx3.googlemail.com. 10

aspmx4.googlemail.com. 10

aspmx5.googlemail.com. 10

Thanks for the article! I set up my domain with Google Apps and pointed its secondary MX records there. It worked like a charm.

this cannot work good, because some server uses a other priority and so the mails are saved on the google server and you have check your own server and the google server permanent.

Doesn't this also mean that any emails sent through gmails server will end up in the gmail boxes and not the exchange servers.

Also wouldn't it be easier to setup a catch-all on gamil and then get the exchange server to download this via a POP connector.

Or better yet pay the $60 or so per year it costs to get another company to act as a relay service.

I have the same problem as Tom Sellers. Google throws this error to me.

Your current MX records contain incorrect value(s):

MX Server address Priority

mailserver.xxx.com.             0

ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.      10

ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com. 20

ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com. 30

ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com.   40

ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com.   50

How to solve this?

If your primary mail server is down then any emails sent will go to the backup server (gmail) in this case. However what happens if the user tries to access their emails via their usual client, will the mx record point them to the backup sever and if they have their passwords in-sync what will happen?

I am thinking here of a client accessing via IMAP and am worried that the sync could cause major problems when the primary is back.

Thanks

Shaun

Thanks for this article - and the clear instructions.

What worked in our case was setting the MX mail server priority as follows

mailserver.xxx.com   (10)

ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.  (20)

ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.  (30)

...etc.,

i.e., starting at 10, and increasing each value accordingly. We use Network Solutions for domain name hosting, and the DNS config utility had no problem with these values.

One thing to note: I've been checking my backup gmail account, and have found that a steady stream of junk has been landing in the gmail spam folder, and more sporadically, legitimate email in the gmail inbox - all of it addressed to/from groups, lists, or multiple recipients. This does not seem to have coincided with interruptions, and I suspect these are messages that were flagged as junk and tarpitted by our Exchange server, and were therefore rerouted by the originating servers to google servers. Anyone else had a similar experience?

Thanks,

Orson

This is a feasible alternative to something like DynDNS.com's MailHop Backup MX, because not only can you catch the mail, you can create/reply to email during the downtime.  We are migrating our equipment overseas, and need an interim solution until our Exchange server is in place there (about 2 to 3 weeks).  The problem is, I need the mail service to backfill my Exchange server once it comes online again.  Is this possible using this solution?  Talking about 100+ users.  The downside of having to create an account for each user is scary.