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I don't really understand this comment. You can host exim+mutt anywhere. With a megacorp, in the cloud, even under your bed... The only problem you face is gett

I don't really understand this comment. You can host exim+mutt anywhere. With a megacorp, in the cloud, even under your bed... The only problem you face is getting the giants to accept your mail so you will probably want another server acting as a smarthost if you host at home. I also don't remember being involuntarily offline in the last four years so I don't optimize for it any more. Plus, it's email. It will be there when I get to it. You can incur hours of downtime and other servers will just dutifully keep trying to deliver messages. It's a pretty laid back service.

mnw21cam 12y ago
Well-configured other servers will just dutifully keep trying to deliver messages. There are plenty of less well configured servers out there. For instance, I have greylisting configured on my primary SMTP server, but no greylisting on my secondary (because it's run by a friend, not me). Some servers will contact mine, offer a message, get told "try again", and just not bother, even though they could try the secondary and get through straight away. Other servers will give up after failing to deliver for 30 minutes.