Richard,

> Or use no secondary MX and have faith in the fact most email servers are set
> to try again for 4 days?  :)

Exactly.

> However ERTN ain't working with them?  Mail comes through eventually - we
> are 24/7 connected.  However in the times we have been offline for 3 days
> for upgrades, I tried a ERTN to speed things up and nada.  So is this RFC
> for an addition to a 'standard' not implemented by everyone?  Sort of a
> Microsoft way of applying standards?

Correct.  Not every ISP implements it.  I believe most of the major
mail servers support it... (i.e. sendmail, qmail, etc.)... but
additional configuration needs to be done. (At least, that is my
understanding.)

Dan

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