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What happens when there is a power or ISP outage?
by asprouse 8y ago
What happens when there is a power or ISP outage?
- dragonwriter 8y agoYou don't have independent redundant internet connections and reliable backup power at your home?
- rataata_jr 8y agoRedundant internet connections? Oh, come on!
- fred_is_fred 8y agoI suspect everyone here has at least multiple redundant internet connections if they have a cell phone.
- dragonwriter 8y agoWhile I have a cellphone, and can and do use it as a hotspot, I wouldn't exactly say it could provide a fallback connection for a server in my home, because it usually spends a significant part of the day out of WiFi reach of my home.
- ranger207 8y agoMost email servers are set up to resend automatically for a while, potentially for a couple of days.
- shock 8y agoMTAs will retry delivery for up to a week. There are other options for more advanced usage though, e.g. one can configure multiple mail servers with different priorities, `the helm` having the highest priority and if it's down a MTA would try the next mail server which could be just a forwarder like mailgun.
- aeden 8y agoThey have a sort of FAQ on their shop page that provides info about this: https://thehelm.com/pages/shop https://thehelm.com/pages/shop See under the question: What happens to my email if my power or Internet service goes out?
- asprouse 8y agoOdd that they hide their FAQ in the shop page and hidden below the fold on a 13" screen. I looked everywhere but there. You'd think you most customers would want their questions answered before buying.
- dmoreno 8y agoEmail has several retries. Something like 6hr, 1day, 2days... After that the sender receives a delivery error. All that is managed by the SMTP servers and the numbers change, but normally just losing internet connection or power for some hours doesnt make emails dissapear. By design.