[Freedombox-discuss] Email on the FreedomBox Discussion

[Aitor Pazos]

I see an availability issue running an e-mail server in FB,
Normal users doesn't own what we can call a reliable environment. There are 
blackouts from time to time, the hair drier can shut down power, my ISP 
connection is not redundant, etc. For other services like instant messaging or 
VoIP if my environment fail I'm not able to access my network from my client 
devices (unless I'm on the road) and I will be unavailable to others anyway. 
But mail is different, mail is asynchronous, if the FB is not available when 
the message reach my home, it will be returned back to the sender and that's 
something we don't want to see.
I think it's needed to provide some availability enhancement to FB users. 
Something like an equivalent to the MX priority DNS entries where if the FB 
fails, mails are forwarded to a backup server and resent to the FB as it 
becomes available. Obviously, users should be able to choose whether they want 
to use this backup server or not.

greetings

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