On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 01:38:18PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > This is a fairly naive and open-ended question I'm afraid but I'm sure > others here may have similar setups and thus have answers. > > I run Postfix on a home server which is on all the time of course but, > as it's connected via a 'domestic' broadband service it's not a 100% > reliable connection. There are also times when I reconfigure things > (e.g. upgrade the server) that cause downtimes. > Of course I forgot to say, I use Postfix to *receive* mail sent to my domain using SMTP.
> What sort of strategies are available for coping with the (rare) > disconnections of a few hours that occasionally occur? I know that > SMTP delivery is fairly robust and, as far as I know, the backing off > and retrying seems to work pretty well but I'd like, if I can, to do > even better. > > I have access to the zone files for my system's domain so I can add > lower priority MX records but I'm not really sure how that helps, does > anyone go down this route with a home system? > > Any ideas or comments would be welcome, even "don't bother the SMTP > back-off works well enough". > > -- > Chris Green -- Chris Green
