[TriLUG] OT: DSL for SOHO in Chapel Hill

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Carl Lindner wrote:

> Actually, if you guys don't mind me jumping into this thread.  I'm 
> curious that if you do have multiple MX records for email defined.... 
> how exactly do you go about synchronizing them without the user having 
> to pop/imap to multiple machines to retrieve their email from secondary 
> backup servers?

MX isn't necessarily the final destination.  A backup MX usually holds 
onto mail for the primary MX until the primary MX comes back online.