[mailop] Multiple mail server setup

Hi, I’m planning to move my mail setup from one primary and one backup MX to two MXes with equal priority, and one backup MX. To achieve that, I have of course two options available for setting up my MX records: (1) example.com. MX 23 primary.example.com. example.com. MX

Re: [mailop] Multiple mail server setup

I think it's best they have their own MX record. The only reason I can think of is if one of the A records in a shared MX record is experiencing issues, the second A record on that MX record may not be tried for a while due to caching. Regards Paul On 1 March 2015 at 22:01, Leon Weber wrote: >

Re: [mailop] Multiple mail server setup

>(1) example.com. MX 23 primary.example.com. >example.com. MX 42 backup.example.com. >backup.example.com. A/ >backup.example.com. A/ Here I presume you meant to have two A records for primary.example.com. A name with several A records is suppose

Re: [mailop] Multiple mail server setup

On 3/1/15 2:47 PM, John Levine wrote: (1) example.com. MX 23 primary.example.com. example.com. MX 42 backup.example.com. backup.example.com. A/ backup.example.com. A/ Here I presume you meant to have two A records for primary.example.com. A n

Re: [mailop] Multiple mail server setup

Backups still do make sense, but only if off-net in case your DC is completely unreachable, I've always run one, privately and commercially, and none of them really see much spam for a few years now, perhaps because the spammers of yesteryears think much like you do John :) On 02/03/2015 08:47

Re: [mailop] Multiple mail server setup

That's a different category of problem. :) Obviously when you get large enough you want to have more than one critical facility. But the idea of a "main" data center and a "backup" data center is very 20th Century. Hot/hot with well-tested failover procedures is the way to go. Doug On 3/1/1

Re: [mailop] Multiple mail server setup

On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 10:47:12PM -, John Levine wrote: > By the way, why do you have a backup MX? [snip] He's right. There's no reason for this anymore. All MX's should be precisely equivalent in terms of their accepted email addresses and their anti-spam rulesets. The primary tools of

Re: [mailop] Multiple mail server setup

On 2015-03-01 17:56, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 10:47:12PM -, John Levine wrote: By the way, why do you have a backup MX? [snip] He's right. There's no reason for this anymore. All MX's should be precisely equivalent in terms of their accepted email addresses and their

Re: [mailop] Multiple mail server setup

"Backup" MXs still have use if you like to do certain kinds of spam analysis... Or did. Aloha, Michael. -- Sent from my Windows Phone From: Dave Warren Sent: ‎3/‎1/‎2015 11:15 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: