On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:23:47AM +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote:
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> --On 14 August 2009 17:29:12 +0100 Ian Eiloart <iane@???> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
As I said: 127.0.0.1 is usually available, then rely on the local exim to get it right.
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