The way I understand it...
Mail will be delivered to the highest priority (lowest number) first. If there are MX records with the same priority, it will try each MX record randomly (but never the same one twice) until it succeeds or all connections fail before moving to the next MX record with a lower priority (higher number).
Hope I made myself clear...
bwc
At 10:20 AM 10/24/2003, Kris McElroy wrote:
Let me ask this then say one of my 10 MX goes down, then what is the current effect on mail delivery?
Thanks,
Kris McElroy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rod Dorman Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] MX Strategies
On Thursday, October 23, 2003, 23:54:47, Kris McElroy wrote: > Currently my Setup is as follows. I have two gateway servers that run > both virus and spam checking that are arranged like this
> 10 MX gateway1.domain.com > 10 MX gateway2.domain.com
> My Imail Server is not in my MX records. I am thinking of adding > another server to the mix and was curious to know if I should add it as > another 10 MX or as a 20?
It depends on why you're thinking of adding it. If its for load balancing it should be another 10 MX.
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