Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I didn't see your explanation of the problem that you expect to solve
> with a secondary MX record, though.
I use "just queue my mail" secondary MX hosts for all of the mail servers
under my direct control simply because it means that when the primary
server goes down for whatever reason, all of the mail ends up in a local
queue under my control rather than in tons of remote queues that I have no
control over.
That way, I have full control over the queue timeout, the timeouts on
individual messages, and in extreme cases I can play games with smtproutes
and virtual domains and redirect and rewrite all of that mail to go to
some other host. I've had to do this before, and was *very* grateful I'd
thought to set up a secondary MX.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
