On 2010-06-15 7:11 AM, Patrick Farley wrote: > Maybe I am missing something, but I'd like our inbound mail to go > somewhere in the event of an outage of that existing server. > I'm trying to figure out the best scenario to build in some fault tolerance > into the system.
What you are missing is that fault tolerance is already built into the SMTP protocol. If your server is down temporarily, messages will be queued up by the *senders* server, and will be retried later, sometimes within minutes, usually no longer than an hour or two. The only time that a secondary MX should ever be considered that I can think of is if your primary - or more usually, the internet connection it sits on - is so unstable as to be prone to going down for *extended* periods - and by extended, I mean for more than a day or two. Otherwise, just let the smtp protocol do its job. -- Best regards, Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
