From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 25 21:05:06 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA12041 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 21:05:06 -0800 Received: from iis (iis.webnet.com.au [203.8.105.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA12029 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 21:04:59 -0800 Received: from jazzy.phase-one.com.au (gw.phase-one.com.au [203.21.35.254]) by iis (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA05361; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:05:08 +1100 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:02:27 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Marelas X-Sender: maral@jazzy.phase-one.com.au To: ywliu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: holding mail for delayed delivery?? In-Reply-To: <199511251407.OAA22683@neptune.pristine.com.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, ywliu wrote: > > > > > > > Its got nothing to do with sendmail, it has to do with DNS and MX records. > > For most implementations of sendmail (ie. default .cf file), its > > set for something like 5d/4h...and if your MX records are not set up > > Just a quick question here and I hope you may help me : some domain > has several MX records, such as American On Line (aol.com). When one message > comes in, how is it delievered to those MX sites ? One by one if failed ? > Each MX has a priority, ie. foo.com 1 boo.com 2 loo.com 3 If foo.com is down, it goes to boo.com, and if still down to loo.com.. If all three are down, depending how intelligent sendmail is on the senders side, it will get queued on the local machine. Peter