5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
7:32 p.m.
Tony wrote...
Eeek!!! I don't like this at all. My ISP takes the
mail server down from
time to time for scheduled maintenance, it's also failed a few times (not
often, perhaps half a dozen times in 10 years). I don't think it's ever
been down for more than a day, though. It's certainly been down for more
than half an hour
To lose messages becuase of that is not something I am at all happy with.
Tony, I think you're missing something here. ISP's pretty much always have
secondary and tertiary mail servers. Just taking down ONE server doesn't
make your mail bounce. The classiccmp server would try the secondary. For
example, your ISP (demon.co.uk) has two mail servers set up. Surely they
don't take BOTH of them down for maintenance at the same time ;)
Actually, I can't think of the last time I've seen ANY domain that didn't
have more than one MX record. Except for someone trying to run a service out
of their house. To do so, is... well...
Jay