RE: Value of backup MX

["Steve Drees" <drees@rangebroadband.com>]

John Goerzen <> wrote:
> I'm looking at redoing my mail setup due primarily to spam filtering.
> Over at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Spam-Filtering-for-MX/multimx.html,
> they are suggesting not to use redundant mail servers unless needed
> for load balancing.

This is poor advice.


> It seems to make a lot of sense to me, but it seems too that I must be
> missing something.

I'd suggest having a backup MX but make sure you have all the filtering at
your backup that you have at your primary.


>
> Thanks,
> John