# Allowing a backup email system

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [July 26, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557 "2024-07-26T11:24:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-backup-email-system/318557/4 "2024-07-27T02:44:42Z")

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The easiest way to do this would seem to be external to Discourse – specifically, a tool that accepted mail delivery, then used one of a number of third-party services to relay the mail. I’m not aware of such a tool already existing, but it would seem to be a better solution than trying to build in some sort of mail relay redundancy into Discourse itself.

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