backup mx

backup mx

[Thomas Stivers]

I know several of you are running your own mail servers and I was
wondering if there is a free service that will provide a backup mx to handle
mail when your box is unreachable. There may not be with all the
problems with spam lately, but I figured I might as wellask. Thanks.
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carefully than others.
Thomas Stivers
e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org
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Re: backup mx

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I think www.nols.com might provide this but I'm not sure.  Have not visited
their site in a while.  I used to use them for dynamic dns and think I
remember them saying they also provide back up mx services.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org>
To: "Speakup List" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:12 PM
Subject: backup mx


> I know several of you are running your own mail servers and I was
> wondering if there is a free service that will provide a backup mx to
handle
> mail when your box is unreachable. There may not be with all the
> problems with spam lately, but I figured I might as wellask. Thanks.
> --
> Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
> carefully than others.
> Thomas Stivers
> e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org
> GPG: 45CBBABD
> http://stivers-home.dyndns.org
>
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Re: backup mx

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I think www.nols.com might provide this but I'm not sure.  Have not visited
their site in a while.  I used to use them for dynamic dns and think I
remember them saying they also provide back up mx services.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org>
To: "Speakup List" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:12 PM
Subject: backup mx


> I know several of you are running your own mail servers and I was
> wondering if there is a free service that will provide a backup mx to
handle
> mail when your box is unreachable. There may not be with all the
> problems with spam lately, but I figured I might as wellask. Thanks.
> --
> Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
> carefully than others.
> Thomas Stivers
> e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org
> GPG: 45CBBABD
> http://stivers-home.dyndns.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: backup mx

[Steve Holmes]

I don't know about free mailers for multi user processing but one
thing I've done in the past is set up a second mx record at my DNS
host, directnic (www.directnic.com) to point to a mail forwarder.  It
so happens that directnic has such a service so I used to forward the
mail (*@holmesgrown.com to the e-mail given to me free by my internet
provider.  I then used fetchmail on my box to POP down the mail and
toss it through sendmail on my box.  This sounds quite complex but
worked as a backup when my local mail server was off line for any
reason.  I eventually had some problems with that mail ending up in my
root folder instead of being properly tossed and I gave up trying to
fix it.  I think Earthlink changed something in the header format or
something and fetchmail couldn't sort it properly.

Sorry for such a complex explanation but the big challenge is getting
someone to host all mail for a particular domain (as a backup server)
like this.  It would probably be much easier to rig up something for a
single user situation.

HTH.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:12:30PM -0600, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> I know several of you are running your own mail servers and I was
> wondering if there is a free service that will provide a backup mx to handle
> mail when your box is unreachable. There may not be with all the
> problems with spam lately, but I figured I might as wellask. Thanks.
> -- 
> Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
> carefully than others.
> Thomas Stivers
> e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org
> GPG: 45CBBABD
> http://stivers-home.dyndns.org
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: backup mx

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Hi,

     I'd be happy to host your backup MX.  Tell me the domains you want me 
to back up, and point your second MX record to speakup.octothorp.org.

          HTH.

-- 
          Bill in Denver


On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Thomas Stivers wrote:

> I know several of you are running your own mail servers and I was
> wondering if there is a free service that will provide a backup mx to handle
> mail when your box is unreachable. There may not be with all the
> problems with spam lately, but I figured I might as wellask. Thanks.
> 

Re: backup mx

[Luke Davis]

There is also:

http://www.bungi.com


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:

> Hi,
>
>      I'd be happy to host your backup MX.  Tell me the domains you want me
> to back up, and point your second MX record to speakup.octothorp.org.
>
>           HTH.
>
>