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Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Jul 8 15:30:21 2005

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:02:02 -1000
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> The principle purpose of the secondary mx, in this case, is to accept
> email for the primary mx during periods where the primary is down

and the sending smtp server has no spool.  i.e. no useful
purpose.

today, the primary purpose of secondary mxs is to receive spam.

randy


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