Backup mail server?

[Steffen Kluge]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 19:57 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> If the final destination is down, the users aren't going to get their 
> email regardless of whether it's held on originators' servers or some 
> secondary MX between,

Depends on which part of the final destination goes down. Sites don't
always disappear altogether. If one MX fails, for example, having
another one next to it (*not* in between or in front of it) provides
perfect resilience.

> Still haven't established (to my mind) the need for backup mail exchanges.

That wasn't my intention. I was arguing against both backup servers and
HA for MTA's. I agree that there is no point in using intermediate
servers, and I believe there is no point running two MX'es in some sort
of load-balancing or fail-over configuration. Unless of course, the
machines also run the back-end stuff (pop, imap, webmail, Exchange,
Notes, etc), which is a very bad idea IMO.

Cheers
Steffen.


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20050520/a9932920/attachment-0001.sig>