Backup Mail Service
(Secondary MX Services)

Get enterprise backup mail services for only $1.08 per month!
Store up to 1 GB of mail for 14 days!
You do not need to use our DNS services with this product.

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 DNS Made Easy's 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 DNS Made Easy's Backup Mail Service.

How it 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 Mail Service:
DNS Made Easy's backup mail services gives you access to three emails servers for complete email redundancy. So if you will have an extra three levels of MX records giving your domain three levels of MX priority.

If your mail server cannot be reached then your email is then sent to DNS Made Easy's 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. DNS Made Easy will keep attempting to deliver mail to your server for 14 days!

Quota and limitations:
The standard backup mail service will hold up to 1 GB of email or 100,000 emails (whichever comes first). Please contact our sales department if you require additional room.

Does DNS Made Easy block any emails or is this a spammers open relay to my systems?:
The DNS Made Easy backup email service is not an anti-spam service. But we do simple email checking to help prevent spammers from using our emails servers as an open relay to your mail servers. We currently:

• 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).
• Check to make sure the "from" mail address is valid.
• Check to make sure the email headers are properly formatted. Many spamming mailers do not comply to many RFCs regarding proper SMTP headers.
• Greylisting
  • All backup email subscribers get this for free, other companies usually charge as much as $59.95 per year per domain!

Greylisting is a simple method of defending electronic mail users against e-mail spam. It is the best way of blocking most spam without using content filters (which can cause to false positives). So with this option we do not have any false positives (so no email will be lost) but we also do not act as a spammers paradise to spam you.

In short, a mail transfer agent which uses greylisting will "temporarily reject" (a 450 error code) any email from a sender it does not recognize. If the mail is legitimate, the originating server will try again to send it later (within a few minutes), at which time the destination will accept it. If the mail is from a spammer, it will probably not be retried so the spam will not be relayed through our sytems into your mail server.

Note: You "do not" need to use DNS Made Easy DNS for your domain to use our backup mail services. You can add the appropriate MX records for your domain on any system you want.

Pricing:
DNS Made Easy provides you with three backup mail servers for you to use.
1 Domain - $12.95 per year Buy Now! ($1.08 per month per domain)
10 Pack (10 Domains) - $109.95 per year Buy Now! ($0.92 per month per domain)
100 Pack (100 Domains) - $949.95 per year Buy Now! ($0.79 per month per domain)

Quotas:
Each domain is allowed up to 1 GB or 100,000 messages in queue.
Each domain is allowed to transfer 10 GB of email per month.
There is also a daily limit of 100,000 incoming connections per day. We can not be used to defend a dictionary / directory harvest attack. Please contact our sales team if you are looking for a defense for this type of attack.

Don't be fooled by other competitors that charge high fees for backup mail services. DNS Made Easy (Tiggee LLC) is one of the largest wholesale Internet service providers in the world and and we are passing the savings directly to you.
DNS Made Easy's backup mail services provide you with enterprise DNS mail services for a fraction of the normal cost.