Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-04 Thread Sami Ketola
> On 4. Jun 2020, at 18.17, Nicholas Taylor wrote: > > Fetchmail connects to your provider's e-mail server as if it were an MUA, > then feeds mail to your server's MTA as if it were a peer MTA. If your > provider doesn't allow client connections (by IMAP or POP), then you're right > that f

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-04 Thread Nicholas Taylor
Fetchmail connects to your provider's e-mail server as if it were an MUA, then feeds mail to your server's MTA as if it were a peer MTA. If your provider doesn't allow client connections (by IMAP or POP), then you're right that fetchmail won't help. It sounds as though you need to set up some

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Andrea Miconi
> If your server is down, mail delivery is tried every couple of hours for > days. So - if your server is down for a day or two, no email should get > lost. Fortunately the server went down very few times, but the last one lasted almost two daysand I lost a lot of mail on multiple mailboxes.Even

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Andrea Miconi
I read about fetchmail.I understand that it doesn't work if the mail server uses an MTA. Il mercoledì 3 giugno 2020, 15:07:51 CEST, Nicholas Taylor ha scritto: This is pretty much exactly what I do.  I use fetchmail [1] to download mail from my ISP and feed it to exim, which delivers ev

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Bob Gustafson
Use Fetchmail on the link between your provider and your email server. Schedule a fetch every 5 minutes or so.. This makes for a very flexible and resilient system. On 6/3/20 5:06 AM, Andrea Miconi wrote: My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server. On DNS there is an MX record pointing to the

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Nicholas Taylor
On 03/06/2020 11:06, Andrea Miconi wrote: My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server. On DNS there is an MX record pointing to the server. To read the mail I use Roundcube. If the server is down, I lose the new mail. I would like to do two things, alternatively. First option. 1) I keeep the ma

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Stefan Hagen
Andrea Miconi wrote: > My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server. > On DNS there is an MX record pointing to the server. > To read the mail I use Roundcube. > If the server is down, I lose the new mail. Really? What kind of downtime makes you loose emails? If your server is down, mail delivery

Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Andrea Miconi
My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server.On DNS there is an MX record pointing to the server.To read the mail I use Roundcube.If the server is down, I lose the new mail. I would like to do two things, alternatively. First option.1) I keeep the mail on the provider's server, restoring the orig