On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote:
Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue
whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just
behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's
on y
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:11:24PM -0700, Brent Wiese wrote:
> Is there a way to make the backup MX server understand that some mail is
> ultimately destined for it and try to deliver it locally?
>
> Here would be an example:
>
> Mydomain.com is MX'd to mail.mydomin.com, which handles email for
> That's the hard part. The Secondary MX'ing part is fairly easy. All
> you do is get your friend to add an MX record to the DNS
> 'yourfriend.com' zone listing your server as a high numbered MXer:
>
> $ORIGIN yourfriend.com.
>
> @ INMX 0 smtp.yourfriend.com.
>
Nico Meijer wrote:
> Hey Bill,
>> Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
>> has been delayed?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
>
> On a technical level, I totally disagree with myself. On a practical,
> day-to-day operations level I have to admit I'd
Hi Bill,
When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish idiots.
When black mode is on, I just want to get them all. ;-)
When I arrange fallback MX for people/organisations, they expect their
mail to be handled in a delicate, perhaps even 'professional' manner. No
mail may be l
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote:
>
>
>
> When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish
> idiots.
This is excellent. It should be on a bumper sticker or something.
>
>
> Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers
> to w
Hi Doug,
Point taken. Wrong example, imho, but point taken. ;-)
> They will have no problem
convincing Joe Sub-Average juror (of which there will be more than
enough to go around) that you were the cause of Joe Average computer
users' loss of his entire retirement savings.
I have just enough fait
Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Bill,
>
> Black mode is on, here. ;-)
I'm not familiar with that metaphor.
> > Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
> > has been delayed?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
>
> On a technical level, I
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote:
Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue
whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just
behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on
your plate at dinner? ;-) I do, maybe you too, bu
Eric Crist wrote:
[ ... ]
One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the even their connection
goes down. How do I go about setting it up so that his user base (about
80 users) will not see any problems in mail transmission and reception
if their primary servers go offline. I would like mine t
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:19:56PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
> mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
> don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
> servers out th
Eric Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
> mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
> don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
> servers out there. ;
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