[BlueOnyx:12802] Re: OT: Backup MX

[Richard Morgan]

We also run a backup MX but a much, much simpler config that Chris 
mentioned.

We've installed BX on a VPS run by a third party that's dirt cheap 
(8USD/month) and it's deliberately configured not to have any email security 
for SPAM, etc.  This was is catches the occasional message but is 
particularly useful for also providing backup MX to a client's Windows 
servers (which seem to need weekly reboots, etc).

It also runs secondary DNS.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet" <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com>
To: <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:38 PM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:12801] Re: OT: Backup MX


> Hi Dan,
>
> On 4/10/2013 12:29 PM, Dogsbody wrote:
>>
>> I'm intrigued, does anyone run backup MX for their domains any more or
>> has spam killed that practice?
>>
>> Dan
>
> We run 3 inbound MX's for all of our hosting customers.  They are each
> in a diverse geographic location, and each one performs spam filtering
> duties, with logging centralized to a MySQL database on the primary
> system.
>
> Given user propensity to gripe if email hiccups for more than 90
> seconds, I would not consider anything less...
>
> In a "worst case" scenario, we might lose a hosting box, so email
> delivery (reception to the server) would be delayed.  But in the
> meantime inbound mail queues on the filtering systems waiting for the
> hosting box to come back online.
>
> -- 
> Chris Gebhardt
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