[TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)

John F Davis johndavi at us.ibm.com
Tue Jul 30 08:15:44 EDT 2002


Hello

For what its worth, I've been doing my own mail server for a couple of
years now and I have never had
a secondary MX.

JD

Lisa Lorenzin <lorenzin at 1000plus.com>@trilug.org on 07/30/2002 08:10:04 AM

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Subject:    [TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)




andy wrote:

> I'd like to understand a little more as to why.  I'm freeing up for time
> shortly and I'm planning to set my own mail server up so that I can have
> email thats at least as reliable as the postal service again

in pursuit of reliability - one thing i'd suggest, from experience, is
that you find someone (or several someones) to do secondary MX for you.
service interruptions happen; they're a lot less frustrating when you at
least have the consolation of knowing that your mail is queuing up for
you.  it also helps to find a secondary on a different internet service
than you are, so a single failure doesn't take you both down..

       lisa

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