At 10:30 -0800 13/02/02, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: >Larry Stone wrote: > >>A thought just occurred to me: this backup server needs to be configured >>to relay the mail to you. > >Well, this "backup" mail server is my ISP's mail server and I probably >can't get them to reconfigure it. I made it my backup sever by entering >it into my DNS' MX records with a lower prio than my SIMS. > >With that, the backup mail server has know knowledge of the existing >of my server at all unless it knows that it has to look up the MX >records by itself and find that it should not keep the msgs but >deliver them to the higher prio server. Is that what a properly >configured unix mail server would do automatically?
Get someone running SIMS and similar blacklists to act as your secondary in exchange for your being backup for their mailserver. This has worked out pretty well for me and Mark. Well, ok, it's at least worked out well for me. Mark will have to answer for himself. I did this after noting that the vast majority of my incoming spam was being passed via my ISPs mailserver. -- ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
