I don't know about free mailers for multi user processing but one thing I've done in the past is set up a second mx record at my DNS host, directnic (www.directnic.com) to point to a mail forwarder. It so happens that directnic has such a service so I used to forward the mail (*@holmesgrown.com to the e-mail given to me free by my internet provider. I then used fetchmail on my box to POP down the mail and toss it through sendmail on my box. This sounds quite complex but worked as a backup when my local mail server was off line for any reason. I eventually had some problems with that mail ending up in my root folder instead of being properly tossed and I gave up trying to fix it. I think Earthlink changed something in the header format or something and fetchmail couldn't sort it properly. Sorry for such a complex explanation but the big challenge is getting someone to host all mail for a particular domain (as a backup server) like this. It would probably be much easier to rig up something for a single user situation. HTH. On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:12:30PM -0600, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I know several of you are running your own mail servers and I was > wondering if there is a free service that will provide a backup mx to handle > mail when your box is unreachable. There may not be with all the > problems with spam lately, but I figured I might as wellask. Thanks. > -- > Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more > carefully than others. > Thomas Stivers > e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > GPG: 45CBBABD > http://stivers-home.dyndns.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
