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 Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 02:24:45PM +0100, Allen Coates wrote:
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> 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 tim
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 09:04:45AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 8/17/2017, 8:56:53 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > 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 probl
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 08:49:20AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 8/17/2017, 8:38:18 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > 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
On 8/17/2017, 9:28:00 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> This is nice in theory but doesn't work in practice,
This statement is most assuredly not true in a general sense.
The reality is, it works very well in the vast majority of cases.
> because not every sender particularly closely follows the app
On 08/17/17 09:04, Tanstaafl wrote:
> In the vast majority of cases, the perceived benefit is simply not worth
> the trouble. If your server is down for more than 3 days, then you have
> bigger problems, and the vast majority of the emails you would have held
> will have lost their value (if they h
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 downti
On 8/17/2017, 8:56:53 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 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 r
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 serv
On 8/17/2017, 8:38:18 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> 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
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 01:38:18PM +0100, 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 'd
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