Thank you Victor, you are the embodiment of truth.

> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 08:26:19PM +0800, Tom Reed via Postfix-users
> wrote:
>
>> 1. postfix is a backup MX for foo.com
>> 2. this postfix uses other MTA as relay_host
>
> This would be a misconfiguration.  A backup MX host MUST NOT be an
> effective null client that relays *all* non-local mail to a "smarthost"
> relay.  Rather, a backup MX host MUST be at least smart enough to
> relay mail for the domain(s) in question to better (lower) preference
> MX hosts.
>
> The best way to do this, is to configure an explicit nexthop in
> default_transport, and be sure to leave relayhost empty.
>
>     main.cf:
>         # MUST be empty, to avoid backup MX domain loops.
>         relayhost =
>         relay_domains = foo.com
>
>         # Regularly updated list of valid foo.com (and any other relay
>         # domain) recipients:
>         relay_recipient_maps = ...
>
>         # Replace "smarthost.example" with actual default relayhost.
>         default_transport = smtp:smarthost.example
>
> Relay domains will use "relay_transport" (default "relay", which is
> a clone of "smtp"), so will not in error use the smarhost.
>
> --
>     Viktor.
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