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Re: [LUG] backup MX



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Theo P. Zourzouvillys wrote:

i'd be interested to hear one good argument toward why hosting an MX on
your ADSL is even a slightly good idea?

See my other mail. Personally I don't see anything wrong with hosting MX on 
ADSL if it serves you well enough.

Having an address aware backup MX doesn't save bounces. The messages are
just bounced earlier, at the backup  MX rather than when they can be
delivered to the primary MX.

having a backup MX that is aware of local-parts saves LOTS of bounces.  if
you don't undersytand that you shouldn't be allowed to run your own MX in
the first place.

Yes... this was a brain dead statement, I have not a clue why I made it.

I accept that
secondary MX servers are targetted by spammers but I'd much rather have a
bit more spam than risk losing email.

great. "i don't care if everyone gets lots of bounces from my mail server,
but thats ok because it doesn't affect me."

Well.... looking at my logs I know people aren't getting bounces from my 
backup mail server at present, and I know that I am writing a router and 
transport config at the moment so there won't be bounces from backup MX for 
addresses turned down by the primary. I know then that the connecting host 
doesn't get a 550, so it looks like the mail was accepted to them, but tbh I 
don't care about that.

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Dave Trudgian - Cornish Dave
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