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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 April 2004 23:21, Dave Trudgian wrote:
The first question is "why would you do this?".It is not uncommon for servers trying to send you mail to have very short, perhaps only about 1 day, queueing lengths. This situation has been caused by the massive amount of virus and spam mail filling up queues. What if my server was on an ADSL connection and I moved say from my term time address to my home address over Easter?. My main MX on ADSL may be offline for 3 or 4 days. My backup MX on the net will hold everything. It's *extremely* simple to setup and takes no maintainance.
i'd be interested to hear one good argument toward why hosting an MX on your ADSL is even a slightly good idea?
Having an address aware backup MX doesn't save bounces. The messages are just bounced earlier, at the backup MX rather than when they can be delivered to the primary MX.
having a backup MX that is aware of local-parts saves LOTS of bounces. if you don't undersytand that you shouldn't be allowed to run your own MX in the first place.
I accept that secondary MX servers are targetted by spammers but I'd much rather have a bit more spam than risk losing email.
great. "i don't care if everyone gets lots of bounces from my mail server, but thats ok because it doesn't affect me." ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvllys <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfCPw448CrwpTn6YRAm7vAJ9rwPXgEgT53irBP5VL0Qe8AfqlTwCfepgY t7cjGUBdvwxUMwxXBOhhsF0= =FWU9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.