-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>All normal >servers should attempt the lowest MX first. sadly, it's not a function of the normality of the client (you don't mean server when they are sending you email) but of the network :( http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon- 20060320/msg00150.html >So suppose that on the >lowest MX I had something that recorded the IP address of hosts that >attempt the lowest MX. This attempt is stored for say 2 hours. Then when >they retry the higher MX records the system knows that they have already >attempted the lower one and it is not rejected. But hosts that try the >higher MX records without having tried the lower one first are deferred. Please feel free to shoot yourself in the foot, please don't commend it to others, or speculate about its efficacy without at least checking the archives for the last time it was debunked :( - -- richard Richard Clayton They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBRZP08poAxkTY1oPiEQIILQCg3QmPYBLjdkwKbH7vm0G9Vbm74v0AniwL sfmUZvCLs1Fy2EhuHPBqyiIh =7ds0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
