On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 01:00:24PM +0000, Dominic Raferd wrote: > I use a VM in a different country with the same priority MX so that we > should have effectively zero overall downtime. (The exceptions are when > I propagate a broken configuration from one MTA to the other - oops.) > There are some complications to this setup but I have it working > neatly. However I have often heard it said here that such an approach > is overkill.
My VM is also overseas (from me)! :-) How do you read mail then that may get delivered to either of two places? > It is true that occasional downtimes may not be a big issue for > incoming emails - they should be deferred and then resent by their MTAs > when your MTA is back online. But if you (+others) need your MTA to > send outgoing emails it may cause aggravation when it is down, > especially as MUAs do not necessarily (or ever?) wait and retry. > Not really an issue for me, I'm the only user of the local postfix and I can send mail from elsewhere if I get desperate. -- Chris Green
