[82027] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jul 8 15:36:22 2005
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:35:45 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <17099.858.50701.907309@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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--On Tuesday, July 5, 2005 12:02 -1000 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
>> The principle purpose of the secondary mx, in this case, is to accept
>> email for the primary mx during periods where the primary is down
>
> and the sending smtp server has no spool. i.e. no useful
> purpose.
>
> today, the primary purpose of secondary mxs is to receive spam.
>
Or, perhaps one wants more direct control over the how long you can be down
before things bounce policy. A secondary MX allows that. The fuse on the
sending spool is at the discretion of the person running the senders=20
mailserver.
The time limit on your secondary MX is, presumably, somewhat under your own
control.
There are other legitimate purposes as well.
Owen
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