On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:31:12AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > Cool, so we can easily setup one or 2 fallback smtp servers on the network
> > to handle this. Should be good enouth for most cases ...
> 
> Not if your own network link is down, which is more likely than your
> ISP's mailservers being down.  You should always have *some* background
> process to periodically check your mail queue (even if it were run from
> cron).  

Depends on the context. In a corporate environnement there can be one or 2
SMTP servers on the local network, and when the local network is down
machines are unusable anyway (NFS, NIS, ...)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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