[TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)

[John F Davis]

Hello

Reason 2 is correct.

And you are correct, if for some reason you go down.  The mail will get
resent.  If you get back up in the meantime, everything will be ok.

Like I said, I have been using my own mail and I haven't ever needed a
secondary MX.

Also, keep in mind, you might not want your friends to collect your mail.
I trust my friends, but I don't want to have to trust them that much.
i.e. they might get nosey, they might get hacked, etc.  Why am I so
paranoid?  Well, its not just my mail, but its my wife's mail, our
ameritrade mail,
etc.  Its personal and I don't want it out of my hands.

JD

Chris Merrill <cmerrill at nc.rr.com>@trilug.org on 07/30/2002 01:16:23 PM

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Subject:    Re: [TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)



Lisa Lorenzin wrote:
> in pursuit of reliability - one thing i'd suggest, from experience, is
> that you find someone (or several someones) to do secondary MX for you.
> service interruptions happen; they're a lot less frustrating when you at

Is the purpose here:
1. To ensure quick mail delivery by having an alternate POP/IMAP
    server to point your mail client at?
-OR-
2. To ensure mail does not get bounced if the server is temporarily
    unavailable (maintenance, network outage, etc.)

The reason I ask is that I'm under the impression that most MTAs
will retry message delivery many times before bouncing a message.
For example, our office mail server (outsourced) will attempt mail
delivery for 5 days if it cannot contact a server.

Also, I'm running my own mailserver at home -- which is occasionally
down for a few hours or even a day at a time.  Nobody on my mailing
lists have ever complained about mail to the lists getting bounced...
am I just lucky?

Or am I missing a key point in this discussion?

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