On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:43:58AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > I think that what he meant was not outbound SMTP, but that if a sole MX > goes down for more than a few hours, anyone trying to send mail to the > domain(s) served by this server would get "Warning: Message Delayed" > type messages from their own SMTP relays, and it was this that he wanted > to avoid, as it might lead his own clients (people, not MUAs) to think > that his service was unreliable when they discovered this. In which case a second mail server with a lower MX priority is a great solution, given the caveat that it needs to be decently maintained and so on. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 71 degrees Fahrenheit.
