I have been using a 3rd party email service called Spam Soap. Its not really a backup email service more of a spam filtering service, but they do have a lot of e-mail servers. The system works by routing your email through spam soap's servers then it routes all legitimate emails back through your e-mail server.
I had to use this service for a client of mine because they where getting pelted with 20K attempted spam email deliveries a day, causing high loads on the server. I would imagine that if your server is down spam soaps will try to deliver it for the standard 24 hours as do many other mail servers. My client said "Thank you, guys. My spam has been reduced to almost nothing." http://www.spamsoap.com/ Adam Melancon wrote: > I only use zoneedit.com for their dyniamic DNS service, but I really like > them. > > On 9/26/06, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: > >> As with many small companies, at times our mail server goes down >> (repairs, etc) and we end up getting deferred mail destined for us. >> That would be fine, but a lot of people (and automated processes) >> don't like getting the Delayed Delivery messages. >> >> To counter that, we are interested in a backup mail service. There are >> some offerings from companies that provide DNS service (e.g., >> zoneedit.com). There may be others. Does anyone have suggestions, >> comments, or criticisms about these services? >> >> We do around 1-2GB of mail a month, so we would like to keep costs >> down. >> >> Suggestions welcome! >> >> --- >> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> Author: >> "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >> "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" >> >> Download your free copies: >> http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > >
