If it's only momentary and seldom, it shouldn't matter much. Servers should resend mail to the server when they get this temporary refusal to connect. I may be remembering wrong but I thought Postfix, and maybe sendmail would just throttle back until the load average dropped and pass a service temporarily unavailable message too.
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