On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:16:19AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> <grumble>
> What is the point of putting 7 MXs into the DNS if most of them always
> reject connections?
> </grumble>
I found out in the meantime that it's because 6 of them have broken TCP/ECN
(they junk the packets)
http://gtf.org/garzik/ecn/
I've already notified them of the problem, I hope they fix it.
> Your workaround, of course, is to set hosts_max_try to some larger
> number. My task is to make Exim look at the retry time for *all* the
> hosts before bouncing an address.
Cool, thanks for finding the root of the problem.
Marc
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