On 6 April 2020 18:02:22 CEST, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: >On 4/6/20 11:51 AM, Robert Bridge wrote: >> >> It is still commonly considered good practice to have a secondary MX >server. > >[citation needed] > > >> Why trust another party to correctly handle your email when your main >system is offline? > >You're still trusting the sender to do the right thing with a backup >MX. >Only now you're trusting them to follow the part of the spec that talks >about backup MX records, rather than the part that talks about retries.
I find that, with a backup MX, I don't seem to loose emails. I have, however, found evidence of mailservers belonging to big ISPs not retrying emails if there is no response from the singular MX. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
