On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just suffered an outage to my home Inernet server that looked like it
> was going to last for a week or so, and started to scramble to figure out
> how to set something up so that my home mail server (which could reach the
> Internet via a cell card) could receive e-mail. The phone company
> surprised me by showing up thursday when they scheduled for saturday, so
> the issue became less pressing, but I want to get this figured out and
> documented for the next time I have an issue.
>
> Several years ago I setup a non-profit with a dial-up internet connection
> and had the e-mail server connect out via UUCP to a server with full-time
> connectivity for the e-mail delivery, and that worked well.
>
> so can anyone point me at a document for how to configure inbound e-mail
> connectivity to a site that has intermittent Internet access from
> unpredictable addresses? Is there a better way to do this than the UUCP
> approach I used in the past?

Sounds like you want a Backup MX service:

http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/backupmx.html

-n

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