On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:25:03AM -0500, Greg Owen wrote:
> > 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?
Personally you mean? Not much. I was not so much suggesting that it's
a question of "if" but a question of "when". By using words like
"tend" and "likely" I was merely suggesting that "when" should not be
very often.
Like pretty much everything else, this matter has been discussed many
times, even prior to 1.03 and the idea of distributing retries across
all MXes is noted in THOUGHTS.
If that thought is implemented, I wonder if the preference values
should influence the distribution algorithm? Modulo qmtp of course.
Regards.
