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