On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:58:43 +0200, Marc Rietman wrote: > Jake Vickers wrote: >> My reply was based on experiences with my own servers and those that >> I've worked on for other people/companies. The RFC is great and all >> but as you said there are no obligations. When it comes down to it, >> we follow the rules that the "biggies" such as AOL, Yahoo, Google, >> Microsoft, etc. set. I have a couple domains that have 3 MX records >> and I see mail delivered to all 3 machines regardless of priority or >> whether or not the others are answering. As far as I know that >> particular RFC has not been superceded but I'd say that roughly >> (without actually creating some boiled down metrics) 70%-80% of the >> servers that send me message actually follow that particular one. AOL >> has been seen delivering to all 3 of my MX records regardless of >> machine status. There's a couple other broadband companies that >> operate in the same manner that I've seen. > > Ok, that clears things up. It's obviously the usual 'standard' which we > 'all' follow... > > Thanks for the answer, Marc
This is something that worries me... Setting a secondary mail server for backup purposes means that messages will be received in duplicate in many cases? I could handle that, but for many users would (for sure) complain about it :( Or am I confusing this matter? Regards, António Lima
