RE: [OT] recomended DNS services?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my experience over the last 6 months or so - I used to have backup
mail when I was with Rapid then lost it when I moved to Ariel. I have
definitely experienced more lost mail on several occasions when I've been
without it. It was a nice peace of mind to have - especially during those
times where my server locked up etc - a reboot at it all came flooding back
in :)

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> K. C. Li
> Sent: 25 April 2006 21:28
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] recomended DNS services?
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> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Andy Davies wrote:
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> > Unless you operate the backup mailserver yourself, it seems a
case of
> > damned if you do, damned if you don't use the mx backup then?
>
> In reality, a secondary e-mail server is not really necessary and more
> like a liability if it is outside your direct control.
>
> If the primary server becomes unavailable, say for a day, all
correctly
> configured sending e-mail servers with reasonable retry periods should
> queue the e-mails and wait for the recipient server to become
available
> before resuming delivery of the e-mails so none should be lost.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kwong Li
> li@xxxxxxx
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