On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 04:21:51PM -0500, John Levine via mailop wrote: [...] > But now, in 2020, is there a point to secondary servers? Mail servers > are online all the time, and if they fail for a few minutes or hours, > the client servers will queue and retry when they come back.
I see it as a way to direct (most of) the traffic to a particular server. If you have limited resources, the secondary MX might be doing other things as well and if it has to handle the whole mail load it could result in degraded performance of whatever else it is doing. Christof -- http://cmeerw.org sip:cmeerw at cmeerw.org mailto:cmeerw at cmeerw.org xmpp:cmeerw at cmeerw.org _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
