Guillotine Jones, Flâneur1d ago
Okay brilliant and accomplished Mastodonians and Fediversians, it;'s time I consult the hive mind about self-hosting.
I've started to read up on this topic, but I haven't seen a clear answer to THIS question yet:
If I self-host from a desktop computer, must I keep it on all the time, or can I turn it off when I'm doing other things.
Specifically, will incoming emails get lost if they can't be delivered in a timely fashion?
My thanks again to all you wonderful souls.
#SelfHosting #FediverseHiveMInd
Show threadWill Pettersson
@Guillotine_Jones in the old days, email servers sometimes did retry for days, but these days timeouts are limited to minutes, so you'd probably lose emails. See RFC5321 at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321#page-66
RFC 5321: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

This document is a specification of the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport. It consolidates, updates, and clarifies several previous documents, making all or parts of most of them obsolete. It covers the SMTP extension mechanisms and best practices for the contemporary Internet, but does not provide details about particular extensions. Although SMTP was designed as a mail transport and delivery protocol, this specification also contains information that is important to its use as a "mail submission" protocol for "split-UA" (User Agent) mail reading systems and mobile environments. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

IETF Datatracker
Apr 1 at 7:49pmWeb
Show threadGuillotine Jones, Flâneur1d ago
@w_pettersson
Thank YOU, Will Pettersson!
So, absent some solution of which I am not yet aware, my suspicion is that this plan of mine will put me in danger, Will Petterson.
(I see a response below (above?) from @dashdsrdash that may offer a solution.)