Re: taking risk out of hosting

Isp created lower priority mx pointing to their email server in case the
higher priority email server is unreachable.

"Jeniffer K" <me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O$O6tWvCGHA.736@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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