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

[Lisa Lorenzin]

andy wrote:

> I'd like to understand a little more as to why.  I'm freeing up for time 
> shortly and I'm planning to set my own mail server up so that I can have 
> email thats at least as reliable as the postal service again 

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 
least have the consolation of knowing that your mail is queuing up for 
you.  it also helps to find a secondary on a different internet service 
than you are, so a single failure doesn't take you both down..

							lisa

-- 
lisa lorenzin  |  lorenzin at 1000plus.com  |  http://www.1000plus.com/lisa/
of what avail is an open eye if the heart is blind? - solomon ibn gavirol