larry price wrote:.
Generally secondary mail servers are provided by your ISP. Usually
your secondary MX is set up to queue and retransmit to your primary MX
when it becomes available again. It's not as necessary now as it was
back when most hosts weren't connected to the internet full time.
It's also a debatable value, in light of the store-and-forward nature of
SMTP ; if your primary MX is not responding, your mail should be held in
queue at the sender's MTA until it comes back up anyway.
--
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
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