Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

[Stroller]

On Oct 27, 2005, at 12:01 am, Elliott Clark wrote:
>
> I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I
> would really like a mx backup server.  However I already spend too
> much on internet services.  So what I would love to do is set up some
> kind of gentoo community run mx backup web.  Something were users get
> 2 backup servers and they are a backup server for two others.  However
> this would require some trust and a lot of programing to get a utility
> to create configs for all of the different mail servers out there.
>
> I posted on the forums but didn't get any real response so looks like
> the flaws are too great.  But the idea still kinda stands find someone
> else who needs a mx server and exchange.  You be their backup and they
> be yours.

I posted here for DNS secondary volunteers a year or two back, and 
found a guy to host my secondary DNS for me. He seemed very reputable, 
having written computing books & being referenced in Unix mailing lists 
10 years old but he fell off the internet without telling me. According 
to a friend of his he's not dead, just quit all internet use 
completely.

 From this experience I'd advise you not to trust anyone with your 
secondary unless you're paying them to maintain it. I have friends 
locally who run their own servers and although I trust them to get me 
home when I'm drunk, on reflection I wouldn't trust them with a favour 
like this. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they were just to forget 
they were hosting my records when they reinstalled their server, and in 
things like this you only find out about it when you actually NEED the 
backup. $10 a year seems very cheap for such a service, IMHO - you'd 
spend more than that thanking your friends with beer.

Stroller.

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