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Help with email setup on MXroute and CraneMail
Hi everyone,
I'm planning to move to a private email hosting setup instead of google for my primary email.
I have lifetime plan for MXRoute so am also planning to take lifetime of CraneMail, but I'm trying to determine the best way to configure them for reliability.
I want to set up MXRoute as my primary and CraneMail as a backup/failover. I'm considering this approach:
- Configure domain with different MX record priorities.
Only concern is this only helps if primary provider is completely down/unreachable, incase primary accepts but fails to deliver mail would be lost.
I am stuck on how to keep the both in sync, both in terms of mail, unread, folders etc and also mail accounts that I create.
- Has anyone implemented a similar backup strategy? What worked/didn't work?
- How can I solve the sync problem?
- Anyother providers that would make this sort of set up easier?
I'm relatively comfortable with technical setups but would prefer solutions that don't require constant maintenance, and preferably without using another service.
Thanks in advance.
@jar @NameCrane
Tagging you just incase I missed some feature on your platforms that would solve this.
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Running imapsync on a Cron should keep the two in sync. Grab an idle VPS and give it a job.
That makes two of us.
I'm also curious what would happen if I add two different MX records: a primary one and a backup / fallback with lower priority (different server).
Happy MXroute user as well.
so you want to have a given email like [email protected] delivered to 2 different providers ( MXroute and Cranemail) ? and when you read a message on one provider you want it marked as read on the other one ?
you planning on using each providers web interface or using imap or ?pop3?? with a program on your local machine ?
I am not very knowledgeable about this but it sounds like an overkill recipe for frustration.
It’s better to just pay for Google Workspace at this point
Thanks for this, this is what I was considering too but was worried as email creds would be on plain text on a random vps, which is very risky for me.
It would be pretty helpful if either NameCheap or MXroute offered imapsync as a service.
Another possibility I am considering is to configure both in MX records but only use MXroute for day to day and worst case when it fails, I can run imapsync and move to the other.
One reason I am looking for a private provider is that I can talk to a human in case something happens. I don't want my entire life to get locked out just cause some random bits in google's abuse model misaligned.
I have been using MXroute right now for simple stuff , want to move other imp stuff to it too like bank acc, govt docs etc
We do but it's not a persistent thing, you have to kick it off manually.
Pretty sure it works exactly as you think it would. You just need to make sure your spf lookup count is 10 or under. Tho that's only for sending.
Syncing the emails are probably the harder problem. If your already thinking about backups/fail overs, than have two vps from different providers doing the sync between providers as that failing could also happen. Can be as simple as, backup vps pings primary. If it fails than something like Google to check it's own internet. If it can't ping primary but still the outside world try to sync. Though you might have problems when primary come up and your in a sync ATM. No idea what happens.
Could also just get/use an email client that does the sync whenever you use it.
You can check out the
Email Retrievaloption inside of Cranemail.It can automagically connect to remote IMAP's and sync down inboxes.
Francisco
Would that be a one time think or something I can set up on schedule?
You can schedule inside of Smartermail and it auto pulls
Francisco
That solves my problem thanks I will set this up sometime next week mostly