Personally I wouldn't do without one unless email wasn't very important to my organisation.
Having a secondary MX record (and of course a secondary mail server) means that if your connection dies, or if you have to deal with a hardware or major software failure you can take your mail server offline without losing mail. Having you're access provider act as the secondary is usually the easiest way to go, and means if you're connection dies between you and your isp, then the isp can still store your mail till your link is up. Regards Rob T > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Hyne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 20 June 2003 11:59 AM > To: 'slug' > Subject: [SLUG] Secondary MX record - To have or not > > > Folks, > > A little Linux unrelated (but I suppose it is since I am using a Linux > server) but I have been having some discussions with a number > of vendors > around the place regarding secondary MX records. > > There seems to be two camps here - those that do not believe that they > are needed (and thus don't provide them) and those that believe that > they are a mandatory part of a redundant mail system. > > I am sitting on the fence (I can see some merits to both sides of the > argument) but I was wondering what the opinion of the > sluggers out there > is - would you install one and why ? > > Matt > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > ************************************************************* This mail, including any attached files may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended receipient (or authorised to receive information for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ************************************************************* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
