Re:Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative t...
by Doches on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:16AM
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And if the third party service goes down, you're SOL -- there's nothing you can do to fix the issue, and it's your users who are suffering. What's your answer when a customer says "my emails aren't getting through, please fix it" and you...can't?
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Re:Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative t...
by user15672 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:44AM
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If emails are a part of your core business, you should have a business continuity plan for this situation. That may be to fall back to another service, or even a temporary in-house server.
Of course, if it's that important, then you'd be foolish to not have invested in a better solution, or to not have a proper SLA with a third party.
Re:Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative t...
by baudehlo on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @08:23AM
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That's why you always set up a local mail server that delivers onwards to these services. I documented how to do that with Haraka here: https://baudehlo.com/2016/07/26/setting-up-haraka-to-send-to...
Re:Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative t...
by dozzie on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:20AM
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This is a major risk of outsourcing part of your operations. You probably
shouldn't do this to the core of your business, as you lose control over
problems. But sending marketing e-mails usually is not the core of business,
unless one is selling the service of sending e-mails.