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Jay West
jwest at classiccmp.org
Sat Mar 5 21:32:56 CST 2005
Tony wrote...
> Eeek!!! I don't like this at all. My ISP takes the mail server down from
> time to time for scheduled maintenance, it's also failed a few times (not
> often, perhaps half a dozen times in 10 years). I don't think it's ever
> been down for more than a day, though. It's certainly been down for more
> than half an hour
>
> To lose messages becuase of that is not something I am at all happy with.
Tony, I think you're missing something here. ISP's pretty much always have
secondary and tertiary mail servers. Just taking down ONE server doesn't
make your mail bounce. The classiccmp server would try the secondary. For
example, your ISP (demon.co.uk) has two mail servers set up. Surely they
don't take BOTH of them down for maintenance at the same time ;)
Actually, I can't think of the last time I've seen ANY domain that didn't
have more than one MX record. Except for someone trying to run a service out
of their house. To do so, is... well...
Jay
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