[OT] Secondary MX

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.8K blaze of typing glory, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 9/1/2004 3:12 PM, I believe that Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> >Hi, list,
> >
> >I wonder if someone out there would be willing to serve as a backup
> >MX for kurtwerks.com? I can't offer compensation beyond gratitude, 
> >and I would certainly appreciate it.
> 
> What is the purpose of a secondary MX? Is it to have somewhere for mail 
> to go in the case where the primary MX is unavailable? Will the 
> secondary MX simply send the mail forward to the primary once it comes 
> back? Or am I just an ignorant boob who knows nothing of what he speaks?

Setting a backup or secondary MX makes the specified host a secondary 
mail exchanger, which means that delivery will be attempted to the primary
MX first, and then to the secondary host you specify if the primary fails 
or is off-line for some reason.

> I s'pose google could tell me, but I'm s'posed to be working, not 
> searching out WTF a secondary MX is s'posed to do...

Why google when you can ask here. :-)

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