On Thu, 24 May 2012 16:55:04 +0200 Benoit Panizzon benoit.panizzon@imp.ch wrote:
We have business customers with an own mailservers asking us to provide a backup MX for their mailserver. Usualy we deny such request, because such a backup MX would bounce all spam which cannot be relayed, and anyway, the sending server usualy queues the email usualy about the same amount of time a backup mx would queue it. So we see not advantage, but a big disatvantage.
The simple advantage is the control. On a backup MX you can enforce your own rules for keeping mail, sending rates, alarming and so on.
- Is it true, that most ISP offer this kind of service?
An ISP is an ISP - not a mail provider. So why should an pure ISP offer something like a backup MX or a smarthost? But in this world business is not a perfect thing: sometimes you have to offer one service to sell another. But if you don't want to offer such services yourself - be smart and ask another party which has this in their business model included, make a contract and offer it to your customers for a additional fee. So all sides will win. That is the art of making business.
So we have no problem to offer a mail service and I'm pretty sure you will find many more here.
Regards Oli