Friday March 09 2001 00:31, Sam Varshavchik wrote to All:
SV> Installing qmail, and configuring it to smarthost mail through
SV> your
SV> primary mail relay, is going to accomplish exactly the same thing
SV> as
SV> adding ESMTP client code, except that the whole thing will
SV> continue to
SV> work when the primary mail relay goes down for maintenance.
SV> Otherwise, when your mail relay goes down, people will start
SV> screaming
SV> at you because they can't send any mail. Is _that_ a good idea?
The idea is to spread the services to multiple machines, which will
back each other up. People scream at me anyway, but if their email
works, and they can do it that way, they're not chewing my ear off on
the phone. :)
KS
