At 07:13 PM 9/25/99 +0200, Len wrote:
> As I showed earlier, I point the relayed domains' MX records (for machines
>that I know are never reachable, ie offline or behind walls) at my Imail
>machine:
>
> imail.relayinghost.com
> imail.relayinghost.com
> imail.relayinghost.com
>
>
>
> to senders not to send their their MTA's on that wild goose chase (ie,
>they will try to deliver there and fail, so what's them point?), so my MX
>appraoch just lets them dump the mail immediately on my Imail host.
That wouldn't matter. As long as the hosts file tells IMail to accept it,
it does. The only difference being that, as secondary preference, an
attempt is made to send to the primary MX first. Thus, if the other server
happens to be online, it receives the mail directly without IMail touching
it. With IMail set at the primary MX record, it must deal with every piece
whether the end recipient mail server is online or not.
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