On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:28, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Exactly my point. If remote site is down, and you know it will be down > for extended period of time (say two or three weeks), you can move mails > for that site to separete queue with different set of timeouts, and > inform your users about that. That way, emails will be delivered once > the remote site is operational again, instead of being bounced after 5 > days (and annoying warinings generated after 4 hours). Something no ISP > will be willing to do for you. > > Another reason might be that some people might have privacy issues with > their correspondence being stored on intermediate mail server they have > no controll of. > > These are just two examples why in some cases using ISPs mail servers > for relaying is not acceptable solution. Seems to me those are rare cases where special arrangements might be appropriate. Such as tunneling via a VPN or even ssh, or providing distant uses an account on your own server. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
