justin
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Re: Secondary Mail Server/MX Record
easydns does this for any domains you have with them. They provide the backup MX record (unless you wish to take that away), then when your mail server is down, they spool up the mail and deliver it to you when it is up again.
Very useful.
Only one down-side: if you are deny spamming IPs or whatever, the spammers will sometimes try the MX backup mail spool instead .. which may accept the spam, then pass it on to you, getting past your IP bans. |
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Vamp
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MD | reply to DSLDawg23
Some of the email realiability problems are just from filters alone rather then bad mail servers. |
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DSLDawg23
join:2003-08-08
|  If you want to be sure you will get e-mails when your primary e-mail server is down, then get a secondary (backup) mail server and place it in the MX record for your domain. There are plenty of services on the Net that can do this for you, or if you are a techie, you can set one up yourself. Of course, this won't help much if you don't have your own domain name, but it is relatively inexpensive and works for most businesses. |
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