Email store and forward

To ensure a resilient mail service 8el offers a store and forward facility. In the event of a link outage or failure, any email which would normally be delivered to a customer mail server will be collected and stored in a queue on a dedicated mail server.

The forwarding server will be specially configured not to return error messages to the email sender. Mail will simply queue up until such time as the server becomes contactable again. When this happens, mail will flow through to the customer's mail server and a full service will resume. If necessary, with time sensitive content the queued mail can be accessed by the intended recipient via a web browser so they can stay online.