Re:Helm: Personal Email Server
by jiveturkey on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:21PM
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the sounds exactly like the nightmare the GP proposed. what happens when you're on vacation? or even not on vacation but the supply chain is borked or UPS loses your package? even if helm is self-configuring from stored cloud config, this is still a pain and being without email for even a day is painful. 3-5 days (more likely) is intolerable. and if it's longer mail will start to bounce.
> While offline, emails sent to you will not be delivered. This does not, however, mean that they are lost. If your email server becomes unreachable for any reason, the sender’s email server will periodically retry sending the email at a later time. Email servers are generally configured to retry rapidly at first and then back off and increase the time between retries.
> Once your email server comes back online and a retry is performed, you will successfully receive the sent email. If your email server is offline for an extended period of time, the sending server will eventually give up and send a bounce message to the person who sent you the email.