On 6 Apr 2020, at 18:20, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > On 6 April 2020 19:14:35 CEST, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> 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.
But that is just an anecdote. </sarcasm>
