> You may be interested in a patch I wrote: > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-358 > > Unfortunately the patch has not been accepted. > I still think that it should be applied at least as an option.
The problem is that each mx record and all accompanying hosts should be tried at least once and preferably in a deterministic way. Looking at your patch it seems that only one ip is tried. What I think would be better is to 'save' (a property of the mail object) the last tried ip address. If a connection to the host fails (for whatever reason) the mail should be placed back in the store and the next mail should be tried. Later on when the failed mail is retried it already knows which ip address it has tried and skips to the next ip address to try. Using an approach like this does not give a host with many ip address an uneven 'advantage' over other hosts and makes the system more responsive if some domain somehow blocks incoming email (Hotmail has a large number of hosts). Cheers Martijn Brinkers --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
