[PLUG] Backup MX server

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Nov 10 18:59:58 UTC 2017


On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Jason Bergstrom wrote:

> The two reasons this isn't a standard offering are that policies for
> filtering mail differ widely. If a secondary accepts all mail for your
> primary, then your primary returns and now refuses mail the secondary has
> to bounce it (if they don't accept it in the first place their policy has
> to agree with your filtering policy).
>
> The second reason is that sending servers will queue mail for a period of
> time, often 3-7 days, lists may have a shorter policy. If your receiving
> server is down longer then 3 days, you probably should not run your own
> mail server.

Jason,

   Thanks for explaining. The longest outage I've had here has been about 24
hours in the February 1996 ice storm.

   So, I'll withdraw my request.

Regards,

Rich



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