In article , The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Why use a server AT ALL if it's simply cloning someone elses server?
> Why not go direct to the original server?

Indeed. I wasn't envisaging that someone would use an ISP's mail server
and then run their own mail server AS WELL.

I suppose one might do that to ensure one had a backup server in case
the ISP suffered an outage (with the whole mail database, not just a
secondary MX) ... but of one is trusting an ISP's mail server at all one
should probably trust the ISP to provide redundancy and backups.

[Or, rather, if one's ISP doesn't provide redundancy and backups then
one probably shouldn't trust their mailserver.]

One might run other sorts of server, though, and rely on the ISP for
mail.

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Cheers,
 Daniel.

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