Re: When will qmail back off to the next MX?

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Because it's reasonable to expect that other MX records will work for
> 1+2, but not for 3.  If the lowest priority MX record is screwed up,
> why aren't the others as well?

How does the way the 1st MX fails to accept the message affect the working
of other MXes (in a general case)?

> Essentially what we're dancing around is the issue of deliberate
> misconfiguration in an effort to save sysadmin time:  "It's hard work to
> set up split DNS.  Why not just have a low numbered MX record for
> internal hosts, and a higher numbered record for external hosts?  It
> works for sendmail, so it should work for everything, right?"

This is irrelevant. Qmail has no problem with this particular product of
ignorancy unless it can somehow connect to the internal host and get
disconnected (or get a temporary error during the conversation).

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
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