Think about how SMTP works, and you'll get the answer.
In other words, yes. Your primary rejects the message (or the connection in
some cases), so the sending MTA correctly identifies that as a failure, and
tries the next highest MX - in your case, your gateway.
I've got 4 external MX's with
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Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
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From: PF: Exchange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:30 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: SPAMERS hitting my second MX record?
My first MX
Of course they can, and they will. A better way to do that second MX record
is to direct it to a relay SMTP server that will simply hold the mail until
the primary SMTP server is up. The Windows 2000 SMTP Service will do this
just fine.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
My first MX record is to dDoxs. My second is to my email
gateway, in case eDoxs is down. I'm wondering if spammers can
pick up on my second MX record and send directly to it.
Actually, it's very common for spammers to start at your lower priority
MX records. It makes sense for exactly the
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