Just wonder what if my mail server went offline for some periods, and the sending party couldn’t deliver.
Will there be any consequences except I don’t get the mail? I tried searching but they all in the perspective of a sender and get a bounce, rather the other way around.
Some things to consider:
- It is typical for mail servers to retry a couple of times for maybe a day or two. The exact values can differ a lot.
- After this time, the message bounces and the sender (sometimes) gets notified.
- This bounce might get your address removed from newsletters.
So noting substantial other than I don’t get the mail and might get kick out of newsletters?
Correct. But at least for me, even the low risk of some e-mails getting lost is pretty substantial.
If you’re concerned about missing emails, you might want to sign up for a forwarder instead. I don’t see the point of running an email server that’s going to be off for long periods of time.
Generally it’s not going to put you on a blacklist if a sending server doesn’t manage to send, but some have very short queue times before they’ll drop it, so you’re going to miss a lot of mail that way.
Having control while not having my PC up the whole day?
Don’t self host email