Tuffmail was basically a silent middle man. I'd say that any administrator running his/her own email server should know when then internet or power goes out. You're either on the network or trying to check mail from the outside. When the connection is back up, you're inbox is flooded with new messages that were all received by tuffmail during the outage. Luckily most comcast outages are pretty short.
I get your point about the sender wanting to know a messages was received right away. I'd say if you are a business, especially in the IT field, you are better off responding to emails slowly on occasion than to bounce undeliverables back to potential clients and business partners. I'm a big fan of Google Apps and would never recommend putting an email server on a comcast line in the first place, but sometimes you've just got to do your best with what you've got. -Charlie On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Bill Woody <woody39...@gmail.com> wrote: > Charlie, > > If your mail server is taking a little break and not accepting mail, most > email will sit in cue at the sender's 'normally configured' server and try > to send again. > Personally, if I am the reciever I'd like to know someone sent me a message > which my server didn't process. Tuffmail would be great for this. On the > other hand, if I am the sender I might wish to know the mail is delayed so I > can determine if I want to use an alternative method to contact the person. > On the third hand, I am a little different. > > When you were using Tuffmail did it warn of a delay in the mail you sent? > > Bill > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:50 PM, charlie <mtsuchar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've used Tuffmail relay in the past when our company email was hosted >> on an unreliable comcast business connection. The email will sit on >> their servers until your server is back online and ready to receive. >> >> -Charlie >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Jack Coats <j...@coats.org> wrote: >> > My home domain, coats.org , sometimes has email returned that is sent to >> > us >> > and the sender gets a 'non-deliverable' message. >> > One option is to find a secondary email server. Does anyone around here >> > do >> > email secondaries cheap or free? >> > Overall, I like my service, but this is bugging my wife so it becomes a >> > priority for a solution for me! >> >><> ... Jack >> > Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 >> > >> > fax: 630-214-5954 g-voice: 615-746-7104 to leave a message >> > Win more eBay bids .. >> > "http://www.ezsniper.com/refimg.php3?user=servant74" >> > Online Backup .. http://www.drbackup.net?pid=Coats >> > Free Backup if you have 2 or more computers .. http://crashplan.com for >> > win, >> > mac, lin >> > 2G Free storage online - email me directly for link >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en