RE: *** ADMIN: Backup Mail Exchangers

>If you have any questions about this, feel free to contact me directly.

David,

I'm "sure" it wasn't me since I'm receiving mail fine, but then again I
always have that concern that part of my network may be failing. I don't
care who it was as long as it wasn't me. Perhaps a post to the effect of,
"Those w/the problem have been contacted off list" would be in order. 

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs [mailto:david@midrange.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:15 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: *** ADMIN: Backup Mail Exchangers


Folks:

I've had a few situations in recent days where a persons subscription was 
disabled because the mailing list software was receiving bounce messages 
from the mail server.

In both cases it was because of a misconfigured backup mail exchanger (MX).

Please, if you feel you need to use a backup MX, make sure it's properly 
configured.  Also, keep in mind that most mail systems will try to send 
mail for a number of days before giving up and returning the message ... 
unless you expect your mail server to be off line for an extended period of 
time, there really isn't a pressing need for a backup MX.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to contact me directly.

david

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