Types Of Email Failover Solutions
Emails form the backbone of business communication. If the organization faces a disaster or a cyber-attack, business continuity largely depends on email continuity. An email failover service can provide a solution independent from the primary email system and ensures that the crucial communication systems are operational during a crisis.
Types Of Email Failover Services
An email failover service constitutes one of the critical components of an organization’s robust and affordable disaster recovery plan. They ensure that the employees can access their mailboxes during the primary email system’s failure. They also provide correspondence history when the system gets restored, doubling as a business continuity email service. There are two types of email failover services
MX Backup
The MX email backup service stores the incoming emails and delivers them to the user when the primary email system is restored. However, it does not allow the exchange of emails during the outage. Its functions include
- Prevention of email bounce backs
- Prevention of loss of emails
- Functioning automatically
- Deploying email security measures for filtering out spam
Email Continuity
The email continuity definition says that it is a backup email system that allows users to communicate using their primary email addresses even when there is an outage. It has the following features
- Prevention of loss of emails
- Prevention of email bounce backs
- Allowing users to send and receive emails in case the primary email service isn’t working due to an outage
- Deploying email security measures for filtering out spam and phishing emails
Email failover solutions are crucial to maintaining business continuity during an unplanned outage. They can also be useful during maintenance or when the enterprise decides to migrate its emails to a new system to prevent any loss of emails.
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