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Re: Temporary mail queue services?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed May 20 22:23:14 2009

From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1b5c1c150905201218t351d4dd1g5f14191efd480050@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 22:23:01 -0400
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On May 20, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Mike Lyon wrote:

> Does anyone know of a service that you can sign up for to add as a  
> secondary
> MX to act as a mail queue if your primary MX isn't available? I'm  
> going to
> be doing a mail migration and I need a service to point my MX record  
> to that
> isn't my mail provider. I'll spare the details as to why it needs to  
> be
> different provider.

How long will your server be down?

Backup MX without a user list is a Bad Thing because of blowback.

And I'll stop there before someone tells me I'm off-topic. :)

-- 
TTFN,
patrick



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