Use Fetchmail on the link between your provider and your email server. Schedule a fetch every 5 minutes or so.. This makes for a very flexible and resilient system.
On 6/3/20 5:06 AM, 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
Second option I install a second mail server and the two have to replicate the mail. But I don't know how to do it, so I need a guide with instructions. Furthermore Roundcube would always access only one server and if this is down, how can I connect to the second one? This is a typical situation for webmail like Yahoo, Outlook or GMail, but I'm not Yahoo, Microsoft and Google ;)
Thanks in advance for any advice.