backup mx

[Steve Holmes]

I don't know about free mailers for multi user processing but one
thing I've done in the past is set up a second mx record at my DNS
host, directnic (www.directnic.com) to point to a mail forwarder.  It
so happens that directnic has such a service so I used to forward the
mail (*@holmesgrown.com to the e-mail given to me free by my internet
provider.  I then used fetchmail on my box to POP down the mail and
toss it through sendmail on my box.  This sounds quite complex but
worked as a backup when my local mail server was off line for any
reason.  I eventually had some problems with that mail ending up in my
root folder instead of being properly tossed and I gave up trying to
fix it.  I think Earthlink changed something in the header format or
something and fetchmail couldn't sort it properly.

Sorry for such a complex explanation but the big challenge is getting
someone to host all mail for a particular domain (as a backup server)
like this.  It would probably be much easier to rig up something for a
single user situation.

HTH.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:12:30PM -0600, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> I know several of you are running your own mail servers and I was
> wondering if there is a free service that will provide a backup mx to handle
> mail when your box is unreachable. There may not be with all the
> problems with spam lately, but I figured I might as wellask. Thanks.
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