Frode Egeland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:11:48AM +1030, David Fitch wrote: > > >>What do other people with perm connection who run their own mail >>server do for secondary/backup? (ie. secondary mx) >>
It is good to have friends with static IP's (esp if they run an ISP :) > > There are two points of view on using secondary MX (that I've heard): > > 1] Use a secondary MX, and pay the associated costs (though $11/m seems > a little steep) for the knowledge you have some control over your mail. > > 2] Don't use a secondary MX, as the sender's mailserver will spool > messages and retry sending for an average of 4 days. In effect, the > sender's outgoing mailserver will act as a pseudo-secondary MX for you. > > >>(it strikes me as something that would be good for a little "co-operative" >>to do, eg. 2 or more people on different networks/ISPs each be a >>secondary for someone else in the group) >> > > This might be costly, which is why I guess there isn't such a service > available. DNS info is a lot less bandwith intensive than the CEO > sending 20 Meg powerpoint attachments through your 2ndary MX.. ;) > Now I am confused (so what's new? :) I had thought the secondary was just supplying a secondary source for DNS (in this case, the MX records), not actually becomming a secondary destination for the actual email... Is this not the case? -- Jim. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
