The thing I liked about my pop-3 solution was, if my server blew up and I had to rebuild from scratch with new hardware, I could still read my emails via my (almost redundant) ISP account
Allen C On 17/08/17 16:10, Chris Green wrote: > 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. >
