Creating a "mail gateway"

[Ian Petersen]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Robert Brockway
<robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Ian Petersen wrote:
>> Regarding postgrey, he's got some kind of spam filter in place.  Don't
>> know anything about it except that it integrates with Exchange.  As
>> for receiving mail when Rogers is down, won't the sending MTA queue
>> things just as well as Postfix could?
>
> Yes, but[1], you have no control over how long the remote MTA will queue the
> mail whereas you can control how long your MTA queues mail.
>
> Mail bounced by a remote MTA is silent to you too - you don't ever know
> someone tried to email you.  Even if you MTA was forced to start rejecting
> mail (disk full or whatever) you have logs of the event (unless that
> filesystem was full too of course).
>
> IMHO email is too important to business these days to trust remote MTAs to
> queue the mail and deliver it in some rational manner following an outage.

Those are some good points.  I'll mention them next time my dad and I
talk computers.

> [1] There's always a "but" isn't there :)

Yes, yes there is.

Ian
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