Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> The idea of having 2 good MX records is that most MTAs (except Qmail) >> will immediately retry on the next higher MX. > > That's a bad assumption. >
The point is that MTAs that don't follow the rules will see a delay the first time based on their retry settings. MTAs that play by the rules will only delay for a fraction of a second the first time. In either case no email is lost. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
