This is true but some company's ( Mail severs ) only store messages for X amount of time to save on bandwidth and disk space on there external mail servers. I think it is a proactive practice to have a secondary MX record ( If this is for a business. ) and message storage. That is different from your physical site or where your mail is being hosted. That way in case of a wide area power outage ( Remember when the East Coast Blackout? in 2003? ) Mail can be stored while you go rent a generator and or until the power comes back on. I only say this because there are some businesses that e-mail is a high priority service. When you lose e-mail messages and or lose Internet connectivity. Managers don't understand or care how it works. They ( Managers) just think that e-mail flows into there e-mail box ( via some kind of magic way. ). They don't understand how e-mail works. They just want there really important e-mail with out having to call the sender back saying can you send it again.
My $0.02 cents on the question. Mike Miller On 3/31/06, Patrick R. Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
