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▲ psim1 2 days ago

Would a secondary MX be useful here, at least for the receiving of mail?

How feasible would it be to quickly stand up an SMTP server and point your MX to it and get some mail while the outage is ongoing?

▲NetMageSCW 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

An SMTP server is for sending / transferring mail. You’d need an IMAP/POP server that holds mail, setup accounts for everybody on your existing mail, provide access to all those users. It’s like asking how realistic is it to build outlook.com to cover the outage.

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▲charles_f 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

At any scale that unrealistic