*** ADMIN: Backup Mail Exchangers

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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