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" <cobaltfa...@virtbiz.com> To: <blueonyx@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 > VIRTBIZ Internet Services > Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated > www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
