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

[Nathan Conrad]

Postfix question:

I have a postfix server running on my machine, and use a friend for a
secondary MX. If my server is down, does anyone know how long the mail
will me queued on Dux before being bounced back to the sender?

-Nathan

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:10:04AM -0400, Lisa Lorenzin wrote:
> 
> 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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