xemacs.org DNS and MX status

[Adrian Aichner]

"Adrian Aichner" <adrian at xemacs.org> writes:

> Hi All, let me summarize what I have gathered so far, interspersed
> with some questions.
>
> Please send any corrections you may have.

> Simon has wanted to get extundo.com out of the xemacs.org MX bakup
> role for a long time and we should do this now.

Skip Montanaro makes this recommendation on xemacs-beta:

Skip> Two groups from my past come to mind:
Skip> 
Skip>     netheaven.com - Don't be put off by their pretty archaic website.
Skip>     That's not what they're about.  They are extremely competent at
Skip>     networking.  Contact Dick St. Peters (stpeters at netheaven.com).  Tell him
Skip>     Skip Montanaro said hi (it's been a long time).
Skip> 
Skip>     tummy.com - Also an excellent ISP, though in Colorado Springs.  Contact
Skip>     Sean Reifschneider (jafo at tummy.com).
Skip> 
Skip> Skip

Does any of you have anything good or bad to say about netheaven.com
or tummy.com first-hand?

Adrian

>
> Also, currently yxa.extundo.com is incurring varying, sometimes
> substantial delay in xemacs.org mail delivery (according to
> "Received:" headers).
>
> Looking for Backup MX I find:
> http://www.dnsexit.com/Direct.sv?cmd=backupMx
>
> My major concern is that back MX services might be tempted to harvest
> mail addresses.
>
> Hmmh, what about
> http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/deving/archive/2007/01/11/2773.aspx
>
> Does that article make sense, stating that backup MX is an anachronism
> and could be avoided all together?
> Ah, OK, the bottom line is that backup MX is still a good idea.
>
> http://www.editdns.net/
> also provides free backup MX IIUC.
>
> I quote:
>
>> #  Free E-Mail Backup (With optional spam filtering)
>> Scared you're going to miss important emails? If your email server
>> is offline, we will store your email for up to 30 days and re-send
>> it to you when your email server comes back up. You will never miss
>> another email again.
>
> Later,
>
> Adrian
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1] I think I will have to manually update it via GUI, which is not my
> preferred UI.

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Adrian Aichner
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