On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:16:11AM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: > > I hope you realize that by using a secondary MX you have gained absolutely > > and totally nothing. The only difference that made is that instead of mail > > queueing up on the senders' mail relays, the mail gets queued up on the > > secondary MX. And exactly what did that gain you? > > wouldn't it avoid users getting the "message couldn't be delivered for X > hours" messages? Or prevent long-term issues and full-on bounces if > (god forbid) my line goes down for a day or more? > > -Chris
Not only that, if your provider screws up routing, or something else causes routeing to some sites to fail, you'll still get mail from those sites if they can reach the secondary MX. And if the site your primary server is at burns down, floods, etc, you still have mail getting delievered somewhere. I've been thinking about setting up a secondary MX somewhere "else" geographically, for those reasons. However I haven't bothered with it because its a big PITA to test and actually make sure it works right. It does provide a bigger problem when you have something like courier that likes to reject SPAM before accepting the message for delivery though. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
