East, Bill wrote: > Will your ISP cache messages for you? If so, use the relay as your > primary MX and the ISP as your secondary. When your relay comes back, > the messages will come in and still get spam- (and hopefully virus-) > checked.
Bad idea, IMO. RBL checks and SMTP time spam/virus rejection becomes difficult to damn near impossible in this setup (you'd be sticking the ISP with your bounces, with no guarantee they'll get back to the actual sender). Plus, most spam senders will try your higher MXs first, assuming they won't have the same level of spam controls that primary MXs do. In this case, they'd be correct. Take Paul's advice. If your primary MX goes down, it goes down. SMTP is designed to deal with this, and most mail servers will retry for several days before giving up. Steven --- Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Administrator The Key School, Annapolis Maryland _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
