On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:11:24PM -0700, Brent Wiese wrote:
Is there a way to make the backup MX server understand that some mail is
ultimately destined for it and try to deliver it locally?
Here would be an example:
Mydomain.com is MX'd to mail.mydomin.com, which handles email for all
On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote:
Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue
whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just
behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's
on
That's the hard part. The Secondary MX'ing part is fairly easy. All
you do is get your friend to add an MX record to the DNS
'yourfriend.com' zone listing your server as a high numbered MXer:
$ORIGIN yourfriend.com.
@ INMX 0 smtp.yourfriend.com.
Hi Bill,
When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish idiots.
When black mode is on, I just want to get them all. ;-)
When I arrange fallback MX for people/organisations, they expect their
mail to be handled in a delicate, perhaps even 'professional' manner. No
mail may be
Nico Meijer wrote:
Hey Bill,
Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
has been delayed?
Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
On a technical level, I totally disagree with myself. On a practical,
day-to-day operations level I have to admit I'd rather
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote:
Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue
whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just
behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on
your plate at dinner? ;-) I do, maybe you too,
Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Bill,
Black mode is on, here. ;-)
I'm not familiar with that metaphor.
Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
has been delayed?
Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
On a technical level, I totally
Hi Doug,
Point taken. Wrong example, imho, but point taken. ;-)
They will have no problem
convincing Joe Sub-Average juror (of which there will be more than
enough to go around) that you were the cause of Joe Average computer
users' loss of his entire retirement savings.
I have just enough
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote:
snip
When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish
idiots.
This is excellent. It should be on a bumper sticker or something.
snip
Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers
to
Hello list,
I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
servers out there. ;)
One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the
Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,
I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
servers out there. ;)
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:19:56PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
servers out
Eric Crist wrote:
[ ... ]
One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the even their connection
goes down. How do I go about setting it up so that his user base (about
80 users) will not see any problems in mail transmission and reception
if their primary servers go offline. I would like mine
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