On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Matt Hyne wrote: > Yes but the argument is that in the modern internet we have today, all > SMTP servers will spool locally and retry to send mail for up to 5 days > before giving up - thus a seconary MX does not offer any advantage and > could even open up some bigger problems.
Here's how i occasionally goes for me: The net can't see my box (which is the primary MX) for a while. Some time later my box can be seen again. I email my the guy that does my secondary MX and he flushes his mail spool and I get my mail. If you don't have a secondary MX then you rely on the pre-set values of the server that happens to be holding your email. I always have my domains secondaried on servers of people I trust and with whom I can make contact. I'd rather have my mail sitting on a friend's box than some random ISP's server where it may be read or deleted. s. -- Stuart Winter www.interlude.org.uk & www.biscuit.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
