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Jacinto · 4 Aug 2018, 06:41 PM

Good day!

Fasmail's experienced serious recent troubles and, apparently, no longer has geographically separately hosted back-up MX servers, as discussed here: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=73859

As a result, I'm pondering publishing Runbox MX RR for back-up purposes, in case Fastmail falls on its face again.

From past experience, if you don't publish FM's MX RR with 10 and 20 priorities, Fastmail will hound you with warnings about it until you do so.

Two questions for the Runbox Team:

Would using Runbox as a backup MX server violate its TOS?

If not, would setting RB's MX RR at a higher number (lower priority) result in endless warning messages à la Fastmail?

After reading the following RB web page, I don't believe that would be the case -- but would like to make sure. https://help.runbox.com/email-hostin...rmation_on_DNS

Thank you.

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Jacinto

4 Aug 2018, 06:41 PM	#1
Jacinto Essential Contributor Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 395	Would using Runbox as a backup MX server violate its TOS? Good day! Fasmail's experienced serious recent troubles and, apparently, no longer has geographically separately hosted back-up MX servers, as discussed here: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=73859 As a result, I'm pondering publishing Runbox MX RR for back-up purposes, in case Fastmail falls on its face again. From past experience, if you don't publish FM's MX RR with 10 and 20 priorities, Fastmail will hound you with warnings about it until you do so. Two questions for the Runbox Team: Would using Runbox as a backup MX server violate its TOS? If not, would setting RB's MX RR at a higher number (lower priority) result in endless warning messages à la Fastmail? After reading the following RB web page, I don't believe that would be the case -- but would like to make sure. https://help.runbox.com/email-hostin...rmation_on_DNS Thank you. -- Jacinto Last edited by Jacinto : 4 Aug 2018 at 11:33 PM. Reason: Fixed URL.