Running a mailserver at home.
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Running a mailserver at home.
27-09-2009 11:34 PM
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I have got it all set up using a spare domain name I have. It is all running perfectly doing its own dns and sending and receiving mail perfectly.
I decided to test what happens if I purposly take the server down and then send mail to it.
I asume that the sending mail server will queue the mail and attempt to resend it on a regular basis until it can reach the receiving server.
The problem is that I sent the mail several hours ago and it has not yet arrived. I have sent mail from the same address since starting the server again and received it straight away.
I have not yet received any errors saying that the mail could not be delivered.
My question is this:
How long will the average mail server queue mail for and how often will it attempt to deliver the mail in that time?
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
28-09-2009 8:17 AM
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So if you send one now, it will try immediately and succeed, but the one that failed could be waiting a couple of hours before the connection attempt is retried.
Another option is to use autoturn to queue mail at PN until your box comes back on line, then you can make a single connection to collect all your outstanding mail.
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
28-09-2009 10:22 AM
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Main reason I switched was cost, the new service costs £10/year for 500Mb of email store. I was running the router/pc etc 24/7 and the cost was about 60W *cost of electric etc. Not much in it, but they do all the backup etc.
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
28-09-2009 6:39 PM
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I would need to do someting the make the mail server feasible as I am still waiting for those emails sent yesterday while the server was down.
This server is always on but like any other adsl connection mine does drop for a few seconds every few days even with a Cisco 837.
I really like the idea of running the server at home as I regurarly send and receive photos from family. Having a local mail server stops the waiting at the desktop as large emails transfer to the mailserver almost instantly and then I can forget about them.
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
28-09-2009 7:35 PM
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From a Linux shell prompt, type:
finger autoturn.plus.net
and see if they dequeue.
For a script you can plonk into Cron, see here
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
28-09-2009 7:41 PM
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I then tried finger postmaster@autoturn.plus.net and it did do something but still no emails.
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28-09-2009 8:24 PM
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Re: Running a mailserver at home.
28-09-2009 10:48 PM
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Thank you for the help and sorry for thinking there was a problem when it was just the spam folder eating the email!
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
30-09-2009 10:05 PM
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Quote Thank you for the help and sorry for thinking there was a problem when it was just the spam folder eating the email!
Everyone overlooks sometimes the obvious answer, dont worry about it
Backup MX records are a good idea, also is bouncing the email through a backup channel.. you can then get your mailserver to download and deliver to the correct mailbox - when your server is available again
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
30-09-2009 10:08 PM
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The project is going to wait as I am changing the server and currently waiting for an 80Gb HDD from eBay to add to the existing (RAID 1).
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30-09-2009 10:26 PM
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Main reason for opting for raid 1 ?
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
30-09-2009 10:31 PM
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I use Raid 1 so if a disk fails I can replace it and rebuild without loosing everything. I currently use it on my other (Windows) server for the drive (120Gb hardware RAID 1) that stores digital photos among other things.
Re: Running a mailserver at home.
30-09-2009 10:50 PM
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i personally prefer RAID 5 but i guess 1 would suffice 😉
Id suggest getting some software to monitor SMART status' if you are concerned about the length of time the HDD is expected to last
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