[TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)

[Nathan Conrad]

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Postfix question:

I have a postfix server running on my machine, and use a friend for a
secondary MX. If my server is down, does anyone know how long the mail
will me queued on Dux before being bounced back to the sender?

-Nathan

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:10:04AM -0400, Lisa Lorenzin wrote:
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> andy wrote:
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> > I'd like to understand a little more as to why.  I'm freeing up for tim=
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> > shortly and I'm planning to set my own mail server up so that I can hav=
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> in pursuit of reliability - one thing i'd suggest, from experience, is
> that you find someone (or several someones) to do secondary MX for you.
> service interruptions happen; they're a lot less frustrating when you at=
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> you.  it also helps to find a secondary on a different internet service=
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> than you are, so a single failure doesn't take you both down..
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