On Monday, April 11, 2011, 14:02:37, jeremy.als...@imap-mail.com wrote: > ... > There's no wisdom here, just what I've been told -- use a minimum of 2. > All of the examples that I see have at least two MX records. > One of the fellas at the user group who told us about PostFix wast > talking about best -practices and put up a slide about this > Symantec Brightmail Gateway (SBG) - Best Practices: New Deployments. > http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH122730&key=53991&actp=LIST > that says " You must have at least two MX records and then proper A and > PTR record for each host that will handle email."
The intent behind this suggestion is redundancy so when one is down because of hardware/network issues or you're performing maintenance there will be another box that can accept the mail. If you only have one physical box you've severely limited that concept. -- r...@polylogics.com "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh
