Mail and secondary mail server.

Hello.
As I am working on my mail server I would like to ensure that I have some form of back system to prevent me from looosing e-mail messages in the future, specially those that are business related. Once in a while we experience a power outage and I would hate to loose an important business e-mail sent to us at a time when the mail server is down.
Questions:
1. Is there a way to have/use a remote secondary mail server so that in case an e-mail is sent but can't be delivery to our mail server, it is then re-routed to this secondary mail server so that it isn't lost. In this case how should this be set-up both on the server in OS X 1.6.8 and on the outside?
2. I plan to set up an account with Google or another e-mai service provider but would like my e-mail to use my own domain name instead. How simple would this be to set UP? Will Google allow the creation of e-mail accounts with the use of domain names other than its own?
Thank you in advance.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Hi, capaho.
I just called GoDaddy (my registrar) and this time didn't get much help. My experience with GoDaddy has been nothing but extremely positive. Their customer service is one of the best I have experienced but today in particular I wasn't so lucky as the gentleman in technical support to helped me on the phone sounded very inexperienced and seemed to know less about this than I do (and that takes effort).
Both solutions you mentioned sound good to me and I do agree that having the e-mail forwarded to another acount would likely be the simplest solution. But how would I set this up ? How can I setup my account settings at GoDaddy so that when e-mail comes in it is directed to my server as the MX Record points to it, but a copy is also forwarded to a GMail or other similar e-mail account ?
It is important to me for this process to take place BEFORE not AFTER it hits my server. I have grown concerned about loosing business opportunities and facing financial losses from e-mails that are not delivered to me properly. My server can fail for a multitude of reason and I wish to prevent this.
> If your mail server has a fatal error that would kill mail on the first pass,it would be
> affecting all mail, not just some messages, so it's unlikely you have such a problem.
I have had this happen before and this is one of the reasons I am trying to establish some form of redundancy so it doesn't happen again in the future.
> You could set the mail server to forward all undeliverable mail to the admin mail account
> in Server Admin.  That would make sure you didn't miss any messages, but you would
> likely start getting a lot of spam that would otherwise bounce.
How can I do this ? Can this be setup so that all undeliverable mail is forwarded to the admin account UNLESS it is undeliverable because the system has found it to be spam ? In other words, if the e-mail is undeliverable because the user account has been deleted or the address can't be found on the server the message would then be forwarded to the admin account. On the other hand, if the system has judged the e-mail to be spam it would then just be treated as such.
Any help you can offer with this issues will be very appreciated.
Thanks.

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