[email protected] said: > Something I've thought about for when I have my domain host back under my > direct control is acting as a backup MX for friends (and at least one of them > returning the favor). My idea is to act as a spooler until the Primary MX is > back. I haven't seen much documentation out there about a mail server that > just spools messages until the primary MX is back on line, though.
Been there, done that. Eventually decided it wasn't worth the hassle. Mail hosts SHOULD be configured to retry for some set period of time before giving up, In the past that used to be 5 days. Unless your server is going to be offline for longer than that there's no difference between spooling on a backup server and just waiting for the sender to retry once you come back online. And you've added unnecessary complexity, especially if you're doing host-based spam blocking on your mail server. It's really only useful if you need redundancy in case the server hardware fails but the rest of your network is still up and running. john- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
