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.
Four VIPRE protection levels, from inbound-only filtering to 90-day continuity and in-tenant Microsoft 365 protection, with optional click-time link protection.
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.
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.
AI extraction and a rules engine turn business email into structured data for your systems, with a private local-model option when content cannot leave your environment.
The private tier of our parsing and AI platform: a local LLM on infrastructure you control, so sensitive content never reaches a third-party AI service.
N+1 UPS and generator-backed power, multiple independent fiber providers with automatic failover, controlled access, and hands-on engineering support at IDC in Knoxville.
Multiple independent upstream carriers with BGP routing mean that if one provider fails, traffic shifts to the others automatically with no manual intervention.
Replace the VPN-over-internet path with a private, dedicated fiber circuit - zero shared bandwidth, consistent low latency, and no public internet exposure.
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.