[mailop] Microsoft/GMail MX Priority Issues.

2016-02-21 Thread Adrian Neale (iComms)
Hi there, just joined to try and get some knowledge/help on an issue when getting emails delivered from (particularly) Hotmail/Outlook.com but occasionally Gmail addresses. I consulted RFC5321 and it does say the mail delivery will be tried in order of MX preference. Background: We have set

Re: [mailop] Microsoft/GMail MX Priority Issues.

2016-02-21 Thread Dave Warren
On 2016-02-21 01:40, Adrian Neale (iComms) wrote: Hi there, just joined to try and get some knowledge/help on an issue when getting emails delivered from (particularly) Hotmail/Outlook.com but occasionally Gmail addresses. I consulted RFC5321 and it does say the mail delivery will be tried in

Re: [mailop] Microsoft/GMail MX Priority Issues.

2016-02-21 Thread Mark Milhollan
On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, Adrian Neale (iComms) wrote: >The 3rd priority MX record is in the event of an outage, That's your intent, but that isn't how it usually works, much as having a tertiary/backup DNS provider that is only used in the event of outages -- you must expect all MX (and NS) server