You need to be aware of the fact that the remote host you configure as a mail exchanger for your domain has to agree to this. They will have to configure their sendmail to receive and queue your mail. Also, it is considered polite to retrieve your mail on a regular basis. I personally use fetchmail. I have the domain of ki5zw.ampr.org. My ISP has agreed to queue mail for me. My mx record for the ampr.org dns is configured at ucsd.edu. They are the primary for this domain. I have been doing this for years. It works great. Terry -----Original Message----- From: Jacob Schmude [mailto:jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:46 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: yi.org and secondary mx Hi kirk Do you know how to set this up? Yi.org doesn't seem to offer a priority field. Also, would I just enter my ISP email address in that field? On 6 Jul 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Jacob: The secondary mx and any others for that matter are to do > exactly what you suspected. You set the priority at say zero for your > primary and maybe 5 or ten for your secondary and then if your primary > machine isn't up, it gets the host on the other end to move onto the > next machine. in thhe priority ranking. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
