Re: SMTP or ISP Hosted email ?

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For probably 5.00 a month or less, there are services available which will be your "backup" MX record/mail store and forward if you go down.
It sounds like the situations you describe is where customers are using "residential" cable or dsl instead of Business accounts

I have Charter business cable with 4 static IPs - 3mb down/384 up 79.00 a month. I can go to 5mb for 125.00. If I go down, its usually very late at night and if I were to have mail sent to me during that time, the sender simply gets a warning...of a delay and that it will keep trying for a couple days.

But if it were worse I'd get a MX Backup service. My business domain does not get spammed

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"groberts" <wangel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1155133289.686463.15530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I to have had this discussion with people in my office. While I tend
to agree that the pros outway the cons, there is one factor, that one
associate always reminds me of.

Most small businesses use cable or DSL connections to the net. While
they are normally "always" on, they do have outages. These outages
result in the loss of email. If an ISP hosts the email, they hardley
ever go down.

Also, I've recently come across "spam" issues. Most cable or dsl lines
have dhcp assigned ips (Even if static, they are still dhcp, and the
contracts state that the company reserves the right to change the ip if
need be). Most of the bigger isps (aol, verizon etc) block whole
ranges of ips. For example, if a customer of mine is on bellsouth,
their ip resolves to something like DHCP.64.xx.xx.xx.bellsouth.net.
Aol usually blocks the entire range. It's a real pain.

Like I said, I believe the pros outway the cons, but it's vital you let
your customer know that these things can happen.

~Gary

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