--On 14 August 2009 17:29:12 +0100 Ian Eiloart <iane@???> wrote:
>
> Which is fine for MX servers. Not so good for MSA. MUAs (user clients)
> don't use MX records, and don't retry even if the smtp server address is
> a round robin in the DNS. At least, none of the servers that I've tried.
>
Self-correction: I mean that none of the MUAs that I've tried will try
alternate SMTP servers, even if the DNS gives them several IP addresses in
a round robin.
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