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 :-)) -- Gilles Chehade @poolpOrg https://www.poolp.org tip me: https://paypal.me/poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to misc@opensmtpd.org To unsubscribe, send a mail to: misc+unsubscr...@opensmtpd.org
