on 27/4/2001 12:15 PM, Joe Wagner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <SNIP> > > Can someone help me understand why that looped. When the outside world > couldn't find mail.domain1.com and mail2.domain1.com, it sent messages to > mail3.domain1.com. So why didn't mail3.domain1.com just accept the email, > follow the first router line and hold the messages until mail.domain1.com > came back online? Why would the second router line have been followed at > all? Presumable that is what happened so it began routing messages to itself. > > Thanks for the help. > > Joe Joe, Is it necessary to have any router entries in the MX3 (or MX2 for that matter)? Providing the MX1 and MX2 are valid clients of MX3 (SMTP anti SPAM) and the message cannot be resolved by MX3, MX3 will simply forward the message onto MX1 or MX2 if they are on line or keep trying until one of them is on line (how often and how many times it tries set up in the SMTP settings). -- Regards, Les Cavanagh Certified Apple Engineer 0419 946 637 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
