On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, John Kielkopf wrote:

> 
> >  so it is easier 
> > that temporary network problems end up being hidden by its caching.
> >
> >
> >
> > - Davide
> >
> >   
> But why should a temporary network problem cause any issue in the first 
> place, unless that problem is a bad DNS entry? Network connectivity 
> issues during a DNS query should at most cause a delay in sending the 
> mail, but the mail should eventually get through without user intervention.
> 
> I'm still concerned that your fall back to "A" after MX timeout could 
> cause a permanent delivery failure (trying to send to the host pointed 
> to by the "A" record, potentially hitting an SMTP server that would 
> refuse the delivery) when the failure should only be temporary (can't 
> get any results from the domain's DNS servers due to a network failure 
> somewhere while trying to lookup the MX record).  Admittedly, this would 
> be a _very_ small window of opportunity, but still possible if Xmail 
> handles this as you suggest.

That can be done. Anyone has a domain name with no MX handy, for me to 
test?


- Davide


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