On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 01:06:54AM +0100, Andre Klärner wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 11:21:59PM +0000, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Yes i think the benefits of using your own smtp delivery are worth it. > > I can only agree. And to avoid issues when my landline is down I have a VM > on a big hoster that on one side delivers all my locally generated mails to > avoid the dialin IP address problem. And on the other side it acts as the > backup MX that stores my mails until my landline is back online and it can > be delivered at my home.
IMO, a better way to do this would be to have your current backup MX be your primary (and only?) and set it to have a high retry time, possibly even setting up something like ETRN[1] to trigger the remote MTA to flush its queue to you. You may also be able to configure your mail server to have a separate retry time for incoming vs outgoing mail. I *think* postfix can do this? Seems like something it would be able to do. [1]: http://www.postfix.org/ETRN_README.html I'm sure other MTAs support ETRN, but that was the first hit on google, and I'm a postfix user (retired qmail user, and qmail does *not* support ETRN) so it seemed prudent :) -Jeremy
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