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Subject: [OT] forwarding mail to local machine
From: Wouter Hanegraaff (wh+postfixblub.net)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 16:22:33 CST

Hi,

At home I have a cable internet connection which works most of the time.
Right now I'm running fetchmail to collect my mail from the mailserver.
I would like to change that to just use a .forward that forwards all mail
to my local machine.

However, my local machine doesn't have an MX record, and the cable
internet connection is a bit flakey. So it might happen that a message
arrives at the mailserver, and the mailserver tries to send it to my
local machine, but there is no response from my local machine.

The mail server and my local machine both run postfix, and my guess is
that the mailserver will have queue the mail until my connection is
back, but I want to be absolutely sure.

So will the mailserver queue the mail until it can connect to my local
machine?

If not, what will happen?

Also, is this really a good way to have mail delivered locally or are
there better ways to accomplish this?

Wouter... 

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