You have it right. Unfortunately, mail still hits the
lowest priority
server based on my experience even when the Primary is up
and running.
Or, even better, point it at an unused IP on your network.
(don't point it at 127.0.0.1, that will get you blacklisted in the
rfc-ignorant
We tried that and had problems with some clients (the business client
not the mail client). Seems a lot of Exchange servers will try the
lowest priority MX for some reason, and then never try the highest, just
fail.
With the current setup a valid message will eventually get through.
| Just to clarify here You are talking about doing something like:
|
| domain.com 1200 IN MX 10 smtp-1.domain.com
| domain.com 1200 IN MX50 smtp-2.domain.com
|
| You all are saying that most of the spam should be coming in MX
50 right?
|
| I have to admit I've
