[ On Monday, August 25, 2003 at 12:18:58 (-0700), Vineet Kumar wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Anyone for Mailer-Daemon??
>
> What should a system operating as a backup MX do? If my server acts as
> a backup MX for my friend's server, and my friend's server is down, then
> I have no way of checking whether the local part of received messages is
> valid (barring some sort of out-of-band valid-local-part-list-syncing
> kludgery).
>
> What do you suggest for this type of situation?
If you can't run your backup MX with the same (or more stringent)
policies than your main server then don't run a backup MX at all.
Why do you think you need a backup MX host in the first place?
If your primary MX is going to be so un-reliable as to really need a
backup then I would suggest current primary unreachable from the world
and route all your mail through the more reliable server.
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