Julian L.C. Brown writes:
> > > Is rcpthosts + smtproutes sufficient ?
> >
> >rcpthosts is sufficient; smtproutes is not needed unless the DNS is
> >misconfigured.
>
> Isn't smtproutes needed for when the primary MX goes down? Otherwise QMAIL
> will attempt to deliver locally rather than store messages until the
> primary MX goes back up?
Nope, that's why you don't put it anywhere but rcpthosts. If the
primary host is down, an SMTP client will deliver it here. This
machine will happily receive it since it's in rcpthosts, however
there's no entry in locals or virtualdomains, the mail is marked as
remote. If there was no better MX record, THEN the mail would
bounce. But there is -- the primary server.
I didn't see your explanation of the problem that you expect to solve
with a secondary MX record, though.
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