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[Avi Schwartz]

Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:

> Colin Brace wrote:
>
>   
>> On 12/28/06, Jeffrey F. Bloss <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I wouldn't want my home mail server to be my primary mail server
>>> either
>>>       
>> Just curious: why not? Reliability?
>>     
> Even with a good quality UPS and an end user feed that's been solid for
> over a year, I feel a little timid about using my "home owner" setup
> full time. If the power goes out for more than about 15 minutes or a
> neighbor decides it's a good idea to run his lawn mower into the switch
> box that sits in his front yard I'm sunk. And I'd have nobody to
> comaplin to. ;) At least with a "real" server I can zip over to the
> library and still do my thing.
>   
Actually you are not sunk unless you need your email urgently.  Since a 
legit mail server will retry delivery up to 5 days, the only thing you 
are going to miss is spam.  After all that is how greylisting works.

Avi