Ensuring email delivery using store and forward
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Email usually gets delivered direct to our domain. If, for whatever reason, email cannot be delivered to our mail responder then historically it is automatically forwarded to a backup Google account we have. This has worked ok but has always required manual intervention to send emails to the correct destination.
A solution to this has been to implement a Store and Forward email service as a secondary email responder. This is achieved by subscribing to a store and forward service provider then defining additional DNS MX records pointing to a suitable Store and Forward server. We have opted to use the Myriad Network for our solution and it gives the following benefits for a reasonable annual price:
- Retry mail every 15 minutes
- Stores mail for up to 30 days
- Secondary server for backup continuity
- 4Gb Storage Space


Jason Slater is an independent technologist and blogger.