On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:08:41PM +1200, Don Stokes wrote:
Actually, secondary MXs usually are a silly idea, if the MX can't actually do anything useful with the mail apart from queuing it. All they do is take a whole bunch of mail that would otherwise queue at the client end mail server, and put them in one big queue. It doesn't deliver the mail any faster, and if clients have their mail servers' retry timeouts screwed down so that they know in good time that their mail hasn't got through, that decision its taken away from them.
Maybe, but a secondary MX presents the idea that a "problem with my primary MX" is "my problem", rather than "your problem". Why waste your time when I can take it with my backup and delivery it faster when my primary is running again. Particular if your secondaries and primaries communicate via ERTN. Nicholas --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog