On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:03:20AM -0700, mjt mjt wrote:
> I have mail being sent to some user at server A and
> server B. Server A and B have 3 MX entries in their
> lookup. The first two entries in these are higher in
> preference but are unavailable to the net traffic (for
> some reason ). What i think is happening is that
> qmail is trying to connect to the first MX entry and
> for some reason the server sends SMTP serrvice not
> available to qmail at my end. So the mail is put in
> queue and then qmail retries the first server in MX
> entry.
If a connection to the SMTP port is made but the transaction cannot be
completed, qmail won't try lower preference mail exchangers. It'll only try
them if it can't connect at all.
Chris
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