On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Nathan Hruby wrote: > 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
not really, while that will let me ride out an outage (as long as it's less than 10 days), it won't let me rig up temporary network access and process my mail. With my home outage, I was able to reconfigure my firewall to route through a laptop with a Sprint Cell card to get out to the Internet, but that connection is going to be intermittent and I may get a different Ip address each time I connect out. So I can't redirect my MX record to point at it, but I could connect out through this connection and connect to a mail server and pull messages from it. This is what I referred to doing in the past, the Internet connected mail server was the MX destination, but then I would connect to it via UUCP every hour or so and pull down all pending mail and process it normally. David Lang _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
