MX relay sites

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:17:23PM -0400, Gary Wardell wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My understanding is that most SMTP mail servers, if they see an MX record, will try for a few days to send mail to you.  If they
> don't see an MX record then they will give up immediately.  I believe this is one reason it's important to have your secondary DNS
> on a different network.  Then, of course, if you have secondary mail services you can have them queue your mail for whatever time
> you want before discarding it.
> 
> Some commercial secondary DNS services also provide secondary mail services.
> 

	The Public DNS site may offer a secondary mail server; but I'm
	paid up in advance with Network Services for another year or two.

	Re the MTA's, most keep trying for 5 days before they give up.
	But not all mailinglists want to do that and quit after a day or
	so.

	gary



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   Gary D. Kline    kline at thought.org  www.thought.org    Public service Unix