On 08/17/17 08:38, Chris Green wrote: > This is a fairly naive and open-ended question I'm afraid but I'm sure > others here may have similar setups and thus have answers. > > I run Postfix on a home server which is on all the time of course but, > as it's connected via a 'domestic' broadband service it's not a 100% > reliable connection. There are also times when I reconfigure things > (e.g. upgrade the server) that cause downtimes. > > What sort of strategies are available for coping with the (rare) > disconnections of a few hours that occasionally occur? I know that > SMTP delivery is fairly robust and, as far as I know, the backing off > and retrying seems to work pretty well but I'd like, if I can, to do > even better. > > I have access to the zone files for my system's domain so I can add > lower priority MX records but I'm not really sure how that helps, does > anyone go down this route with a home system? > > Any ideas or comments would be welcome, even "don't bother the SMTP > back-off works well enough".
I have a single secondary MX at a domain controlled by another competent individual whom I know. It's useful in the event of a sustained service outage or other delivery problems (say, if the main application server went down and I had to rebuild it from backups). -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958
