Mail Bagging Explained: How MX Backup Queues and Redelivers Email During Outages
Mail bagging captures inbound email at a secondary server when the primary is unreachable and redelivers it on recovery. Learn how MX record priority, queue retention, and relay work in practice.
Mail bagging captures inbound email at a secondary server when the primary is unreachable and redelivers it on recovery. Learn how MX record priority, queue retention, and relay work in practice.
DNS propagation during M365 tenant-to-tenant migration leaves a window where inbound mail can be lost or bounced. StrataMail acts as a neutral catch-all MX throughout the cutover window.
StrataMail is IDC's flagship email platform — built on VPS infrastructure for performance, security, and flexibility. Available in Shared, VPS, and Dedicated tiers.
SpamWeeder Premium delivers 99.98% accuracy, up to 4 days of email spooling, outbound filtering, and white-label branding — with native StrataMail continuity integration.
VIPRE delivers layered protection against spam, phishing, malware, and zero-day threats — including click-time URL scanning that blocks phishing pages activated after delivery.
Proofpoint Essentials brings Fortune 500-grade threat intelligence to small and mid-size businesses — blocking advanced phishing, BEC, malware, and ransomware delivered via email.
StrataMX Backup queues all inbound email during primary server outages and delivers everything automatically on recovery — no lost messages, no bounces.
StrataMail Continuity activates automatically when your primary server goes down — users keep working through a live browser portal with no IT intervention required.
Email continuity keeps users actively sending and receiving during outages — going beyond MX backup to maintain full two-way communication across StrataMail, M365, and more.
Route different users on the same domain through different email platforms simultaneously — StrataMail for standard users, M365 or Google for collaboration-heavy users.
Keep M365 users on Microsoft's platform while others run on StrataMail — under the same @yourcompany.com domain with unified mail flow and centralized spam filtering.
Local LLMs and n8n orchestration read, classify, and extract structured data from business email automatically — with no data sent to third-party cloud AI providers.
IDC deploys local LLMs on dedicated hardware in Knoxville — giving businesses full AI automation capability with sensitive data staying entirely on-premise.
Redundant power, WOW and Comcast fiber with BGP failover, multi-layer physical security, and hands-on engineering support at IDC in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Two ISP connections — WOW and Comcast — with enterprise BGP routing means if one provider fails, traffic shifts automatically in seconds with no manual intervention.
Enterprise VM backup with built-in deduplication, scheduled replication, and client-side encryption — available in shared and dedicated configurations from IDC.
Replace the VPN-over-internet path with a private, dedicated fiber circuit — zero shared bandwidth, consistent low latency, and no public internet exposure.
MSPs and IT providers offer StrataMail, SpamWeeder, StrataMX Backup, and email continuity fully white-labeled under their own brand — with Webservio staying in the background.
Configure StrataMail Email Continuity monitoring and outage alerts. Set up email and SMS notifications, understand alert types, and read the uptime report.
Configure StrataMail Email Continuity as the failover destination inside SpamWeeder, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Barracuda, or Microsoft Defender. Step-by-step per-platform instructions.