From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:19:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95895117-30C5-47ED-A579-4A1CDD37AE21@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4066b87-6ee2-34bb-2b95-4901c2bd4b0a@gentoo.org>
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.
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Joost
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-06 17:20 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 [this message]
2020-04-06 17:24 ` Robert Bridge
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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