2 MX Servers not Receiving Same Viruses

[Peter Bonivart]

Daniel Straka wrote:
> Question, does this have to do with the MX cost value being different in
> DNS, or are the machines being targeted differently by the virused email?

Could of course be that your primary MX is overloaded and the secondary
has to take some load but more likely some viruses target the highest
numbered MX counting on it to be an older, neglected server with less
protection. I see it often even though my first MX has plenty capacity.

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