From: Robert Bridge <robert@robbieab.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 18:24:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6543FE6A-2141-41DC-8427-51B5C45350AF@robbieab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95895117-30C5-47ED-A579-4A1CDD37AE21@antarean.org>
On 6 Apr 2020, at 18:20, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
>
> On 6 April 2020 19:14:35 CEST, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> On 4/6/20 1:02 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>> On 4/6/20 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>>> Well, I can't refute an anecdote without more information, but if
>>>> you're worried about this you can create the same MX record twice so
>>
>>>> that the "backup" is the primary.
>>>
>>> That's not going to work as well as you had hoped.
>>>
>>> I've run into many MTAs that check things and realize that the hosts
>> in
>>> multiple MX records resolve to the same IP and treat them as one.
>>>
>>
>> Why don't you say which MTA it is that both (a) combines MX records
>> with
>> different priorities, and (b) doesn't retry messages to the primary MX?
>
> I have missed emails coming from mailing lists, this one for example, due to no retries.
> The proof for that is that I got replies to emails I never received.
But that is just an anecdote. </sarcasm>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-06 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-06 12:35 [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server Ashley Dixon
2020-04-06 12:41 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 13:08 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-06 13:15 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 13:24 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-06 16:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-06 16:25 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-06 19:03 ` Rich Freeman
2020-04-06 19:16 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 20:06 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-08 21:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-08 21:49 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-08 22:06 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-08 22:13 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-08 22:22 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-09 1:15 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-06 20:02 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-06 23:34 ` Rich Freeman
2020-04-11 20:08 ` [gentoo-user] " antlists
2020-04-11 20:17 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-11 20:41 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-11 20:45 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-11 20:50 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-11 20:33 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-11 22:13 ` antlists
2020-04-12 2:14 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-06 15:24 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-04-06 15:34 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-06 15:51 ` Robert Bridge
2020-04-06 16:02 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 16:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-04-06 16:43 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 17:02 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-06 17:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 17:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-04-06 17:24 ` Robert Bridge [this message]
2020-04-06 17:27 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 17:25 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 17:32 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-04-06 17:35 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 18:13 ` Stefan Schmiedl
2020-04-07 17:10 ` Michael
2020-04-07 18:34 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-07 18:54 ` Stefan Schmiedl
2020-04-07 19:11 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-07 18:35 ` Stefan Schmiedl
2020-04-07 4:37 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-04-06 17:44 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-06 17:55 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 19:59 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-06 20:55 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-04-06 17:00 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-06 17:34 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-06 21:17 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-06 22:12 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-07 4:49 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-04-07 10:53 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-08 3:18 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-08 13:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-04-08 14:11 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-08 16:03 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-08 16:34 ` Grant Edwards
2020-04-08 14:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2020-04-11 19:57 ` antlists
2020-04-08 3:14 ` Grant Taylor
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