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I'm in the process of setting up various home servers - just for learning purposes. I am thinking of setting up a mail server and use it with my domain ...
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- 03-17-2009 #1Linux Newbie
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I'm in the process of setting up various home servers - just for learning purposes. I am thinking of setting up a mail server and use it with my domain name. I just want to confirm one thing: due to economic reasons I'm not going to run this machine 24/7 so if it's switched off and someone sends me an email - will this email be lost (bounce back to the sender) or is it going to be kept somewhere until I switch on the system. Logically thinking I assume it'd be lost, just want to confirm it.
thanks
- 03-18-2009 #2Linux Newbie
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The sending mail server will probably try to send it a few times over several hours. Once it reaches the limit set on that server, the mail will go missing.
- 03-18-2009 #3Linux Newbie
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OK, thanks for your reply
- 03-18-2009 #4Linux Newbie
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Glad to help!
- 04-13-2013 #5Just Joined!
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I think its different for all servers. Smetimes I have got mail that someone sent 5 days ago while my server had been down.
- 04-13-2013 #6Just Joined!
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I dont know how standard the 5 days thing is though.
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