On 6 April 2020 19:14:35 CEST, Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote: >On 4/6/20 1:02 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: >> On 4/6/20 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> Well, I can't refute an anecdote without more information, but if >>> you're worried about this you can create the same MX record twice so > >>> that the "backup" is the primary. >> >> That's not going to work as well as you had hoped. >> >> I've run into many MTAs that check things and realize that the hosts >in >> multiple MX records resolve to the same IP and treat them as one. >> > >Why don't you say which MTA it is that both (a) combines MX records >with >different priorities, and (b) doesn't retry messages to the primary MX?
I have missed emails coming from mailing lists, this one for example, due to no retries. The proof for that is that I got replies to emails I never received. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
