At 19:30 08/02/2000 Wednesday, John Morrison wrote:
>Things you might want to find out.
>
>*services that the inbound.CHARITYCHANNEL.COM.criticalpath.net provides that
>you will loose e.g. spam filters / fault tolerance / mail format conversion.
>You may also want to look in to some sort of store and forward service as
>backup for your listserv SMTP. This would require that provider to add a
>secondary mx to your store and forward provider.
The choice of secondary/backup MX is not so simple and indeed some of the concerns are already referenced above. Others might include:
1) undeliverable/timeout considerations
2) bandwidth
3) sysadmin/netadmin polices
4) security/backup/access control of their mail servers
5) DNS administration
In short, everything you worry about on/about your mail server.
Pete Weiss @ Penn State