On 08/26/03 at 13:52 -0400, chris opined:
> Ok, why the heck is my backup mail server getting mail delivered to it?
> My main server is online, no outages. I just looked at the queue to my
> backup mail server, and it is full. Tons of stuff some as late as a few
> minutes ago.
>
> Why would my backup mail server be receiving email if my main is online?
If it's a back-up server then it's listed as an MX for the domains for
which you serve mail? It's up to sending MTA to choose which MX to send
messages to. That's usually the one with the lowest MX priority value that
responds (i.e. the 'main' server), but not always. Notably, spamware will
sometimes try to send to a back-up server in an attempt to circumvent
anti-spam measures on the main server.
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