RE: [Nolug] Backup mail hosts?

Hi Dustin.

Almost any ISP (us included) can act as a backup (secondary MX receiver) for
your mail. Also, anyone offering front-end service (virus and spam blocking)
will be doing this by default also.

The amount of time they will hold the mail for you before bouncing it varies.
So you would want to check on that.

John

    John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@redfishnetworks.com [mailto:owner-nolug@redfishnetworks.com]
On Behalf Of Dustin Puryear
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:19 AM
To: sage-members@usenix.org
Cc: general@brlug.net; nolug@nolug.org
Subject: [Nolug] Backup mail hosts?

As with many small companies, at times our mail server goes down
(repairs, etc) and we end up getting deferred mail destined for us.
That would be fine, but a lot of people (and automated processes)
don't like getting the Delayed Delivery messages.

To counter that, we are interested in a backup mail service. There are
some offerings from companies that provide DNS service (e.g.,
zoneedit.com). There may be others. Does anyone have suggestions,
comments, or criticisms about these services?

We do around 1-2GB of mail a month, so we would like to keep costs
down.

Suggestions welcome!

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