Re: Accessing e-mail when internet connection is down

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Frank McCallister SBS MVP wrote:
Here is the MX record for my Backup MX record mx2.mailhop.org. [Preference = 20]
My primary is Preference 10. If your server is down dyndns holds your mail for up to 14 days and sends it when your server comes back up.

I looked at the DynDNS MailHop Backup MX service. I guess that would be one solution, since they will actively will try to connect to your mailserver every 15 minutes or so.

But what if my customer have an ISP/Shared web hosting account where they have their homepage and included some POP3 accounts. Since one already pay for the hostingaccount, I thought, why not use those included POP3 accounts as a backup :)

Would it be possible to use a combo of those POP3 accounts and Exchange? Maby MX 10 to your Exchange and MX 20 to the ISP POP3 accounts?

Problem is, a regular POP3 account will not actively try to connect to your Exchange server and deliver the mail. And if I choose to setup my Exchnage to recive mail (Use Exchange, in the guide) will it be possible to this working? Or how can I use a regular POP3 account as a backup if the server/Internet connection would go down?

Maby there are some excellent guide out there that describes how to configure this, but I just didnt find it.

// Erik Droszcz
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