On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 12:28 , Ron Risley wrote:

> At 10:30 -0800 2/13/02, Thomas Tempelmann opined:
>> Well, this "backup" mail server is my ISP's mail server and I probably
>> can't get them to reconfigure it. I made it my backup sever by entering
>> it into my DNS' MX records with a lower prio than my SIMS.
>
> It takes more than that to be a backup mail server. If your ISP's 
> server is acting correctly, it should be rejecting messages sent to it 
> with your domain.

It would also need a HIGHER, not a LOWER, priority in the DNS records.


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