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Mail Backup
by ZoneEdit staff, edited by Mohan Kapoor, Supervisor, Himalayan Websites
To make use of our mail backup service you must buy or already own a domain name from a registrar. Then you need to allow us to handle your mail at a DNS level, e.g. your domain has to point to domain name servers of our choosing.
When you sign up for the backup mail service, we automatically add our backup mail server in an MX record. This causes all incoming mail to attempt your primary mail server first, and if that fails, to try our backup server. When our backup server gets mail for you, it looks up your primary server, and periodically attempts to redeliver your mail to the primary. It will attempt redelivery for 10 days before returning the mail to the sender as undeliverable.
The Mail Backup service is included in our Information Logistics and Managed Mail solutions. See Domain Routing for prices.