On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, John Kielkopf wrote: > > I think most web browsers will cycle through A records until it finds > one that works. I see no reason why an MTA shouldn't. > > RFC 2821 Section 5 says: > "When the lookup succeeds, the mapping can result in a list of > alternative delivery addresses rather than a single address, because of > multiple MX records, multihoming, or both. To provide reliable mail > transmission, the SMTP client *MUST* be able to try (and retry) each of > the relevant addresses in this list in order, until a delivery attempt > succeeds." > > To me, this implies that Xmail should be trying the alternate A records. > > I do know that if any MX records exist for a domain, you should never > fall back to the A record for that domain -- even if you're unable to > connect to them. Does Xmail obey this?
What do you think? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
