Re: taking risk out of hosting

in other words the MX record is pointing to your ISP or maybe you created
lower priority MX pointing to your isp in case the higher priority is
unreachable, or is the isp simply grabbing all the emails on its way in to
you and making sure that your server is reachable prior to forwarding the
packets to your modem

"Kevin Longley" <kwlongley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uRr3M8mCGHA.736@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> The isp for my company maintains a second email server for us that
> receives email should our email server be unavailable. It then spools the
> mail to us when our email server is available again.
>
> "Jeniffer K" <me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23q5uJvYCGHA.1180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I would like to setup a small size company with exchange, for various
>>reasons they decided to take advantage of hosting the email by them self,
>>so I would like implement some sort of fail over plan (it this is the
>>correct term) in case the internet connection goes down which will cause
>>bounced email, in other words if someone sends them an email while the
>>their internet is down and my exchange SMTP in unreachable for x amount of
>>time then the remote SMTP will most likely just bounce the email and they
>>will never see, can anyone suggest any options?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>


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