Backup MX Service


£20 per domain per year!

Do you operate your own email server?


Do you care about losing email when your mail server is off-line?


Is your current email server reliable and working 24 / 7?



Start using CCS Leeds secondary mail service today!


When your mail server is not accessible by others you have a chance of losing valuable emails. These lost emails can result in lost sales and loss revenue. You can prevent this today by using CCS Leeds UK Backup Mail MX Service.


How CCS Leeds Exchange MX Backup Service Works:

When an email is sent to a recipient the email server looks to see which server handles mail for the domain using the DNS MX records. MX records specify which server(s) will receive mail for a given domain. Each MX record is given a priority (the MX level), the lowest being the primary mail server. The primary mail server is responsible for delivering the mail to the appropriate user mailbox.


Mail delivery is first attempted to be delivered to the primary mail server (the mail server indicated by the MX record with the lowest numbered MX level). If that server is not reachable then the mail will be attempted to be delivered to the mail server with the second lowest MX level. If the second lowest mail server in priority can not be reached then the mail will be delivered to the mail server with the third lowest mx level (third lowest priority) and so on.


If no mail servers can be reached then mail is sometimes queued but is usually just bounced back to the sender. This can lead to lost sales and lost revenue and worst of all lost of communication and respect.


Backup MX Mail Service:

CCS Leeds Backup MX Mail Services gives you access to three additional email servers for complete email redundancy. So if you will have an extra three levels of MX records giving your domain four levels (minimum, including your own servers) of MX priority.


If your mail server cannot be reached then your email is then sent to CCS Leeds backup mail servers. Once it reaches our servers it sits in a queue and continually checks to see if your mail server is back online and is reachable. When your mail server is back online the queued mail is then delivered to your mail server. CCS Leeds will keep attempting to deliver mail to your server for 14 days!


Quota and limitations:

New - Unlimited email volume stored


CCS imposes no quota or limit on the volume or number of emails that will be held in spool for you. We only request that we are not your primary email provider and that the service is used as a backup or secondary service. We believe it is key to the business continuity of your email service that we do not impose limits on the utilisation of the service as you will undoubtedly have more urgent matters to deal with in the event of use of our service, rather than worrying whether you might reach a service cap on your backup email provision.


Does CCS Leeds block any emails or is this a spammers open relay to my systems?:

The CCS Leeds backup email service is not an anti-spam service. But we do impose simple email checking procedures to help prevent spammers from using our email servers as an open relay to your mail servers. We currently:


backup mx New - Anti-Virus Scanning utilising ClamAV to remove un-wanted Trojans and Malicious Executables, Spyware and HTML Scripts.
backup mx Check to make sure the system / server sending the email is matching who they say they are. Many spamming email servers / software will pretend to be someone else. So reverse DNS is required (reverse DNS is also a requirement by the SMTP RFCs)
backup mx Check to make sure the "from" mail address is valid.
backup mx Check to make sure the email headers are properly formatted. Many spamming mailers do not comply to many RFCs regarding proper SMTP headers.
backup mx But primarily we store and forward your email ensuring in the event of a failure of your mail server, leased line, ADSL Broadband Connection etc. that you do not loose email. If we are in doubt, we store it, not reject it.


Note: If you are looking for a full Anti-Spam solution, which includes our Backup MX service, please take a look at our Anti-spam Services.





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Secondary MX Service additional Info


Note: You do not need to use CCS Leeds DNS for your domain to use our backup mail services. You can add the appropriate MX records for your domain onto your current DNS providers' control panel and full instructions or assistance will be provided to achieve this.


Using high security servers and anti-spam protection, CCS Leeds can provide you with secure and reliable MX backup solutions and ensure continuous email communications.


We host mail servers in our Leeds datacentre, our Leeds Secondary datacentre and Telehouse East, London. The two Leeds datacentres act as a mail cluster and our secondary mail server is in Telehouse utilising an alternate providers' transit to ensure full resilience of service.


 

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