On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:09:46PM -0400, Tanner Lovelace wrote: > That's it. From then on it just works. If a server can't contact > your server to pass mail (which it will do first because of the > higher priority [lower number] on the MX record) it goes to > the next server in the list which would be mail.trilug.org. > The trilug mail server will then notice that another MX has > precedence over it and try to deliver it to your server. It > will keep trying based on the postfix retry configuration > (which is just the standard for us right now).
Spammers will try all MX records. If the first one fails with a 5xx NO SPAM ALLOWED, which should be a fatal error, it'll try the next one until it gets through or fails on all of them. jf -- John Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICBM: N37 12'54", W80 27'14" Z+2100'
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