On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 02:24:45PM +0100, Allen Coates wrote: > > > On 17/08/17 13:38, Chris Green wrote: > > 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. > > > > I am in an identical situation to you - my broadband modem locked up > this morning & I had to reboot everything :-( > > My original domain hosting service forwarded emails to a pop-3 account > (run by my ISP) > When postfix came along, the pop-3 account became my fall-back. > > My new domain host offers a back-up server, and that is how I am running > now. > > In reality, I receive very few genuine emails via the back-up server; > they are mostly spam which has been refused by my primary, or from hosts > which didn't bother trying the primary. > > About a month ago I implemented grey-listing within postscreen. Since > then I have had half a dozen or so immediate retries via the secondary. > > I am brooding over the idea of obtaining an "el cheapo" second internet > connection - that opens up the possibility of running my own secondary > server on a raspberry pi, or something. > > I don't think any harm would come by NOT having a back-up of some sort - > but it runs severely against my nature. > > hope this helps > Thanks, it's good to hear other people puzzle over the same problems.
What I currently do (and I'll probably continue to do after reading the comments here) is to deliver all my mail to two destinations. This is easy as my hosting provider does this, I simply put two addresses in the mail forwarding for my main E-Mail address. One of these is my home system, the other is a system where I have an account with ssh access. On my home system the E-Mail is sorted and filtered as needed, on the ssh access system all the mail simply drops into a single mailbox and is deleted when more than a couple of weeks old. Thus if my home system is off for any reason I can recover urgent E-Mails from the remote system. Thanks for all the comments and ideas, as I said I'm pretty convinced that I will continue as at present. -- Chris Green
