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> > I usually put them in as primary MX and us as secondary - never got any
> > 'could not be delivered' messages.
> 
> You'll get messages in your log file - "deferred, timed out during 
> startup with...".  Depending on the config of your sendmail, a warning 
> could be sent to the sender of the message.

This won't happen if you set the OT macro in sendmail.cf so that
temporarily undeliverable message won't timeout.

bernie