> We all know that secondary MX systems tend to know much less about the
> domain than the primary does. Consequently a secondary MX *is* likely
> to accept such mail, but largely because it has no clue about what the
> ultimate destinate thinks.
What do you care? In this case, if the mail had dumped off to
secondary, it would have either gotten there or bounced sooner than
'queuelifetime' and not wasted his servers time for a week. The error
involved suggested that retrying the same exact thing remained likely to
fail, that sounds like a good reason to back off to secondary.
In either case, the receiving party gets what they deserve - either
they get their mail through their secondary, which is why they properly set
one up, or it bounces, which is what they get for improperly setting it up.
Some people run well-configured secondaries for good reasons. The
fact that other clowns can't get it right isn't a reason for dropping their
use. Heck, if we stopped using things because people misconfigured them, we
wouldn't be using qmail.
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