http://www.freethoughtdesign.com/blog en http://www.freethoughtdesign.com/2014/12/07/round-trip-email-monitoring-cheap <p>About a year ago, I decided to set up an email server for a couple of my personal domains. I knew it <a href="https://www.linode.com/docs/email/running-a-mail-server">would be a technical challenge</a>, but I wanted the privacy, control, and storage offered by the Linode I was already paying for.</p> <p>My biggest concern was downtime. According to <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5321.txt">RFC 5321</a>, failed mail should be retried for 4-5 days, so as long as I can fix things in a day or so, important mail <em>shouldn't</em> be lost. I'm not a big corporation with lots on the line if the mail server goes down.</p> <p><a href="http://www.freethoughtdesign.com/2014/12/07/round-trip-email-monitoring-cheap" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 07 Dec 2014 16:06:27 +0000 jeff 14 at http://www.freethoughtdesign.com