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Overview ISPs and their customers may not always see eye to eye, but on this point they agree: Email is a mission critical app. Woe be the ISP who takes mail server reliability lightly. Successful ISPs know that losing a mail server means losing customers. Most stand ready with a replacement server to limit downtime in the event of mail system failure. Bluetail Mail Robustifier goes one better: it allows a physical server cluster to work together as one robust, high-availability virtual mail server, insulating the ISP from single-server failure.

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Publisher	internet.com	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2000	Downloads	9
Format	White Papers
Topics	ISPs

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