From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D5FC138350 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 15:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB833E0F7A; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 15:34:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.suugaku.co.uk (unknown [IPv6:2a02:c7d:25f3:2800:c68:8688:e93c:2aa2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BC41E0EA0 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 15:34:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ad-gentoo-main (unknown [192.168.0.3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ash) by mail.suugaku.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D63593C014B for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:36:04 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=suugaku.co.uk; s=mail; t=1586187364; bh=6yZfmdUp/v3G//xIoNMrgiwFhHzqib3o6N1m2TUaC4c=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=Ao/mrgChiEq73AxpYDWlliJ64/QPL3xdLYmB+s7nZ6Ma0DNWQI59TzOVivZbgmy9o kwTi5GxU+n3fsmbe8wYsMXPUd7sk+Uq/0W7J4lrkez6JxonA/nhSneipRnfXZjmPas gSIwENav9EvDEBjlhJ408hFr8Co09KdgpEcT6KEw= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:34:45 +0100 From: Ashley Dixon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server Message-ID: <20200406153445.yzeewcorrb7vjtni@ad-gentoo-main> References: <20200406123504.fkcuaiiahsemympv@ad-gentoo-main> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gqhqbidn6k7l7ngs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Archives-Salt: e9a4f4ae-c098-4762-a3d9-21d5f23fadca X-Archives-Hash: 66b2d54601e66e4311d33c0e2096267e --gqhqbidn6k7l7ngs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 05:24:03PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > You'd need to install a SMTP server on the backup system and configure it= to > relay emails to your primary mailserver. >=20 > In the DNS you can configure priorities in the MX entries. Hi, cheers for your response, however as Michael pointed out, such a server would be unnecessary. I wasn't aware of the S.M.T.P.\ standard which mandat= es M.T.A.s retry for four or five days, and given that my server won't be down= for longer than a few minutes, I think I'm going to stick with a single MX. --=20 Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA --gqhqbidn6k7l7ngs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEKpralop7ow7ykEEX0Yqw0r8lqKoFAl6LTBUACgkQ0Yqw0r8l qKor4hAAqCUwhnhsg8P2EJH+D8jY+Kzasz8FARFOky9GOM2uepW4xCq9hY8NTo+P SgszXhT1/MJB77ppFPdZYOalCoc6FkQQsrZ0PwCbYSqlUvPuFg6T8pfKGcr7EOjL FWRlISMQLVyBqPslnJ3YqEryCpVIXACt+rWVjxlcrwDgU4h5COhON4iD1wkW385z 9epHOhA4keuyKd/RThAN89qP30ouk1ArkLRC22Av7rzntT6J1vo/2WjmRLIZVPLX /O0I3Fa1B+Kyk6E4DF8xCJTQKz/hkYo2zGIm0cfMRnzm6QyyNJeqGaHd5NSRRr7Z UWP/rjLX2cuGnygn2st+SMqC1IEJ23K/4CgQ5MH/+zigDsBndXlgeXsve3actGHx flXBsKu3VUfQd0yjGF5h5W1RLCEhspFrUL0qgAItixcBdZWnLodS6244rWc/aKcW Hg5Hx6P2LMp6yyohc8t3LetbmOYcukhj5wEKoi72oXJM2L6b2kqKW8PbJgASUkE6 slRGOSrEuGgi4FHQ1CWrL7V1DWS/hW09+pBNbXzG3ajVyk/YAH6bYYXYlW0vJ7Rw 4lvn7S2L2imFu/UteYfgxHHHCTiUOuvqrkCG785/Dhd/ZHvmEC+hZ4oILQiBr+v4 yQx9XlUfpcc2vEHnBIyQJOaefodq0CV3gNcHVONXeqF69RHj9jc= =2nG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gqhqbidn6k7l7ngs--