On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:32:27PM +1100, Frode Egeland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:25:38AM +1000, Jim Clark (Logique) wrote: > > 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? > > With a secondary MX, the mail gets delivered to the secondary if the > primary is not available for whatever reason. > So, yes, the actual mail goes to the secondary MX server. :) > > You may have this confused with a secondary DNS server, which contains > the records of where the primary MX and any secondary MX's are located.
yep - backup nameserver/DNS stuff is ok, there's even free places that do that, I was referring to where the secondary MX receives the email for you then spools it to you when you connect and issue the 'etrn' command. I agree knowing someone who runs an ISP would be handy, but in the absence of that I'm looking for alternatives... (hence my co-op suggestion, I know you're kind of at risk of the extra data caused by the mail you receive for the person/domain you're secondarying for, but there's not really a solution for that except trust. I was only thinking of "home user" type stuff too so not companies with the CEO emailing powerpoint files around - and linux savvy "home users" at that.) Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
