D. J. Bernstein writes:
> Johan Almqvist writes:
> > Quoting http://cr.yp.to/proto/mxps.txt
>
> Don't believe everything you read. :-)
>
> My original design made QMTP-only mail exchangers easier but made
> QMTP+SMTP mail exchangers harder. This was a bad tradeoff.
>
> Clients should interpret a QMTP priority as ``try QMTP, then try SMTP.''
> Then a typical SMTP host that adds QMTP support can keep its single MX
> record but change the priority.
That's what I intended to do. Ian Lance Taylor has pointed out that I
failed to test the case of a host having a QMTP priority but no QMTP
server. I'll reissue the patch in a day or so after I finish off with
a customer's deadline.
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