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>>quanti+(OP)
Warren Toomey: "my mail is stored locally, not on someone else's server"

What does this mean exactly? Is his machine a mail server?

I used to know an engineer/scientists who only used a single laptop (linux) and it acted as his mail server. When he travelled he used dyndns (or some such thing) so that delayed mail would be delivered to his laptop. Could never get a straight answer about whether this worked all the time or not (whether he ended up missing emails).

>>plg+R3
When the destination server cannot be reached usually the origin server will try again for a number of hours before giving up (and in the meanwhile it may send one or more annoying messages to the sender). I wouldn't do that though. I think that it is better to have a "regular" server (gmail etc.) handle it and have your server fetch the mail from it, without any risk of losing emails. I have a setup with fetchmail+postfix+dovecot that works very nicely.