Thank you everyone for replying to my question.
First I think to work on the backup mx server (without any storage), as it was
suggested. And see how it goes.
Le mercredi 5 décembre 2018 à 10:31:35 UTC+1, Gilles Chehade
<[email protected]> a écrit :
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 10:21:13AM +0100, Aham Brahmasmi wrote:
> Hello Craig,
>
> > > But why? Just deliver it and be done. Can't see many drawbacks in
> > > that.
> > >
> >
> > Backup MX servers don't have any mail storage, nor IMAP/POP daemon.
> >
> > They are another hop along the delivery path to the primary MX servers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Backup MX machines are not the message's final destination;-
> >
> > Pretend you are going to the world's biggest party, which is held every
> > New Year's Eve in Edinburgh, so you board an aeroplane to Edinburgh.
> >
> > But the snow hits Scotland, so your aeroplane lands in London. England
> > is not your final destination. It is a backup airport in a different
> > country. You have not travelled to the party capital. So you wait/spool
> > in London until Edinburgh airport is receiving traffic. Then then you
> > get the next flight to your final destination & Hogmanay for 3 days.
>
> Thank you for the excellent analogy.
>
> I will now never forget that Edinburgh is The Party Capital.
>
> And that Scotland is a different country than England :) .
>
that has got to be the best analogy I read :-))
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