OT: secondary MX

[Declan Grady]

On Friday 19 March 2004 07:45, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> >
> > NO! Your lower-priority MX will take over as soon as your primary goes
> > down and you'll start binning all your e-mail!
>
> The original thread was that he wanted to /dev/null his mail THERE! So no
> way of getting them out /dev/null once they get there.
>
> We all know how a MX works, i hope, but in this particular scenario i
> would not try that :)
>
> Not only spammers send to a fallback MX, there are various reasons to send
> there.

.. I'm interested in this .. is there a reason to use a secondary MX when the
primary is up and available ?

Thanks,
Declan  (dns newbie !)