OT: Preferred MTA?

[Pentland G.]

Matt Hampton wrote:
> Some servers always hit the first (ASCII wise) no matter what is
> returned. 
> 
> It is better (as you have finally done Mr Pentland ;-) ) is to have a
> single MX Hostname that resolves to multiple IP addresses.

To be honest I didn't notice that but I probably put a lot more effort
into settings like RefuseLA than most...  The reson I changed it was
more to do with badly behaved servers not liking the 8!! MX records I
had previously.

> To improve it:
> 
> MX	10	server1
> MX	10	server2
> MX	10	server3
> MX	0	mail-server
> 
> where mail-server is DNS round robin for the IP addresses of
> server1-3. 
> 
> This ensures that in the event of one of the servers being down and
> the initial connection failing, there is a fall back which can be
> used.

Agreed, that will work nicely.

Gary