e-mail relay/cache/forwarding server?

[ZippyDan]

I have a local small business email server which is on-site.

In case of extended internet or power outages (we have several redundancies but still), I am wondering if there is such a service as an e-mail relay for incoming e-mail.

The idea would be that ALL incoming e-mail would go through some remote host which would simply forward that e-mail, without any other processing, to our on-site e-mail server.

If for any reason our server was offline (whether due to power loss or internet loss or maintenance), I would expect that relay to also hold the email until our server was back online.

Is there any such service?

 

[KillerBee]

You can try these guys for a couple weeks free - mailroute.net

Store and Forward
http://mailroute.net/services.html#storeandforward

 

[ZippyDan]

You can try these guys for a couple weeks free - mailroute.net

Store and Forward
http://mailroute.net/services.html#storeandforward

Ya that looks like what I want as far as the "Store and Forward" portion.

But, meh, at those prices I could afford a complete off-site Exchange solution. I think I'm looking for something a little "dumber". It seems insane to me that they would charge "per user", when I am the one handling per-user data locally.

 

[Genx87]

I have a local small business email server which is on-site.

In case of extended internet or power outages (we have several redundancies but still), I am wondering if there is such a service as an e-mail relay for incoming e-mail.

The idea would be that ALL incoming e-mail would go through some remote host which would simply forward that e-mail, without any other processing, to our on-site e-mail server.

If for any reason our server was offline (whether due to power loss or internet loss or maintenance), I would expect that relay to also hold the email until our server was back online.

Is there any such service?

www.mimecast.com

Provides spam\av. But also has the option to allow users to logon directly to their mailboxes from their site.

 

[ZippyDan]

Now that you have given me this "store and forward" terminology, it is much easier to google what I want.

It looks like I could possibly just rent an off-site server and drop this in there and do this myself:

http://emailrelay.sourceforge.net/

This also looks like a much more reasonable option, and from a much more well-known company:

http://dyn.com/email/dyn-email-gateway/

 

[KillerBee]

yea - I would rather run the remote site myself too if you have the knowhow
mainly to keep mail from 3rd party prying eyes.

I just remember mailroute from hearing Leo Laporte mention it

 

[ZippyDan]

yea - I would rather run the remote site myself too if you have the knowhow
mainly to keep mail from 3rd party prying eyes.

I just remember mailroute from hearing Leo Laporte mention it

Ya but the pricing. An offsite server would cost me at least $6/month. Dyn says they will do it for $60/year.

In comparison, mailroute will charge me per user, per month, and that would come out to like $100/month. That's crazy.

For the price, I think I'd rather just let Dyn handle everything.

 

[KillerBee]

Yea that does sound like a good price with less hassle of having to maintain it.

Hopefully it's not a sucker-you-in price like Web hosts with "unlimited" bandwidth
that soon charge more once you reach a certain amount

 

[FiLeZz]

check appriver

 

[ZippyDan]

argh

Dyn seemed like SUCH a good deal.

I bought it.

Then, stuff was not working.

My local e-mail server actually handles 13 company-related domains.

It turns out you must actually purchase an e-mail gateway package for EACH domain name.

http://www.dyncommunity.com/questions/31680/email-gateway-with-multiple-domains.html
http://www.dyncommunity.com/questions/30067/backup-email-multiple-domain.html

Stupid stupid stupid. I guess I will be going the do-it-yourself route.

 

[stlcardinals]

Have you considered just going with Office 365?