On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, William Attwood <[email protected]> wrote: > What will happen is the lower the number, the higher the priority; if mail. > isn't responding, it will try mail2, if that doesn't respond, it'll try > mail3 - if in the end none respond, it will wait a certain amount of time > and try again; eventually, if none work, it will bounce it back to you > undeliverable.
That much I'm familiar with, yeah. > To get around the possibility of random e-mail delivery, I actually went > this route: > > This is from my bind zone file: > IN MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com. > IN MX 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. > IN MX 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. > automail.domain.com. IN MX 1 automail.domain.com. > automail.commissionriver.com. IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX What part of the last MX record prevents it from receiving random mail? Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
