> * Ken Reiss (kreiss@???) [990413 19:00]:
> > I have exim set to allow up to 50 concurrent connections. During a time
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> > My question is why/how does an outside sender decide to go to my relay
> > machine, when my main machine is not refusing connections?
James FitzGibbon:
> 1. The decison to try the next MX host in a list is based upon the initial
> connection timeout at the other end. You're obviously not in control of
It might also be that the connecting host is really really dumb, and basically
picks whatever the first MX record it finds in the DNS lookup response.
I've heard that some versions of MS software only handle two MX records anyway,
can anyone confirm this?
Paul
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