You need to see if your service provider can provice backup mx service. Of course this isn't free you need to pay. There is also etrn service available on http://www.ddns.org/ but it is $25us a year or something rather cheap if you ask me On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:56:34PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > If one were to go down during storms, or whatever how does one deal with > lost email if that's a service you run on the machine? I've not yet found a > backup mail service that keeps retrying your system until it comes back. I > know the free dns providers let you set mx, but set it to which machine, > never found a list of them online to choose from to send my mail through. > At 07:46 AM 10/24/00 -0500, you wrote: > >I take my machine down for three reasons typically. The first is that > >lightning storms roll through and the machine doesn't care for those > >surges. The next is that ocasionally the power just drops. The third is > >cause I just want to mess with it and/or, I don't know what I am doing > >while I mess with it. > > > >Notice, I freely admit that sometimes I reboot out of sheer ignorance. I > >know that something can be accomplished without the reboot,but reboot > >because I am not sure how to accomplish my goal otherwise. but this last > >thing is dropping lower and lower on the list. (Oh I did of course reboot > >when I changed distributions recently and am sure there was no way arround > >that.) > > > >======= > >Kirk Wood > >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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 -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 62823451
