Re: taking risk out of hosting
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 04:36:17 -0500
Kevin Longley wrote:
> Isp created lower priority mx pointing to their email server in case
> the higher priority email server is unreachable.
Note that if one's ISP won't do this, www.dyndns.org offers MailHop BackupMX
for a reasonable annual fee.
>
> "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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