From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EEC8138350 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2020 21:49:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C75A5E0872; Wed, 8 Apr 2020 21:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56F0BE0A95 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2020 21:49:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 038LnLhF019955 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2020 16:49:24 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternate Incoming Mail Server To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20200406123504.fkcuaiiahsemympv@ad-gentoo-main> <20200406130812.n4zgquadlgkggi7u@ad-gentoo-main> <8495c9e0-269a-eb83-48d4-15af57adb5ca@gentoo.org> <20200406132427.yde3oxwqtrgwehec@ad-gentoo-main> <20200406161810.522yilumzsl6rvuc@matica> <413ee7a0-8bb9-4677-364f-e03850bfea52@gentoo.org> <86b60e48-bc46-ba55-c42a-93a536eb0e44@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20200408223618.7a44e7c2@digimed.co.uk> From: Grant Taylor Message-ID: <3659039e-4e7c-3a8f-5ae3-f9e3b8d55109@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 15:49:21 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200408223618.7a44e7c2@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d5f3b75b-1aca-43b4-b6d5-0b041902cb7d X-Archives-Hash: 36d18489656f9fee014ed508e9cd73eb On 4/8/20 3:36 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > So does that mean you have four MX records? Yes. > Nolist server > Primary MX > Backup MX > Project Tar server > > in order of decreasing priority? Exactly. (1) $ dig +short +noshort mx tnetconsulting.net | sort tnetconsulting.net. 604800 IN MX 10 graymail.tnetconsulting.net. tnetconsulting.net. 604800 IN MX 15 tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net. tnetconsulting.net. 604800 IN MX 20 tncsrv05.tnetconsulting.net. tnetconsulting.net. 604800 IN MX 99 tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com. (1) They aren't always returned in order do to round-robin DNS. But things that use MX records know to sort based on MX weight. -- Grant. . . . unix || die