Mailbox & Server Down

[Bob Gustafson]

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.
> 1) I keeep the mail on the provider's server, restoring the original 
> MX record.
> 2) Dovecot does not receive the mail, but should go to download it.
> 3) 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 
> provider's server with its webmail
>
> 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.
>
>
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