3 Jun
2020
3 Jun
'20
3:06 p.m.
On 03/06/2020 11:06, Andrea Miconi wrote:
My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server. On DNS there is an MX record pointing to the server. To read the mail I use Roundcube. If the server is down, I lose the new mail.
I would like to do two things, alternatively.
First option. provider's server with its webmail
- I keeep the mail on the provider's server, restoring the original MX record.
- Dovecot does not receive the mail, but should go to download it.
- I can access the server with Roundcube to read the downloaded mail, but if the server is down I can always go to read the mail on the
This is pretty much exactly what I do. I use fetchmail [1] to download mail from my ISP and feed it to exim, which delivers everything to dovecot. I don't know whether it's possible to configure dovecot alone for this.
[1] It's horrible, but it worked in 2007 and I'm intensely lazy.
Nick