On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:59, William Thompson wrote:
> I had an idea of having a primary mailserver that didn't exist and a backup.
Bit of a bitch if theres really no host there - everyone trying to mail
you suffers a full TCP connect timeout for each connection. Worth a
good slapping I'd say!
Better to have something on that IP address that doesn't speak SMTP -
your router for example, or that gives an unavailable initial message.
Nigel.
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