Search Again: Re: MX priorities... From: Jeff Folk Date: Sunday, July 18, 2004 Time: 7:01:44 am Jeff; Put very simply, MX priorities tell the world where your mail should be delivered for your domain. The lower the number in the MX, the higher the priority of the mail server. So in: domain.com. MX 10 mail1.domain.com. domain.com. MX 20 mail2.domain.com. mail1 would be the primary mail server and mail2 would be the backup or secondary. You should be aware that many spam engines target secondary mail servers for delivery because most secondary servers are not configured as thoughtfully for anti-spam tactics. I myself quit using secondary mail servers because most MTAs will continue to deliver mail for several days if your service is down. I hope that answers your question. Regards; Jeff On Jul 17, 2004, at 8:25 PM, Jeff Justice wrote: > Could someone give me a very quick rundown of the significance and use > of MX priorities? Or point me to a Men And Mice link? As > non-technical as possible please... > > Jeff J. > >

Messages In This Thread: MX priorities... by Jeff Justice on Jul 17, 2004 at 6:25:53 pm Re: MX priorities... by Jeff Folk on Jul 18, 2004 at 7:01:44 am Re: MX priorities... by Clark Lowry N7AAC on Jul 19, 2004 at 4:25:20 pm Re: MX priorities... by Jeff Folk on Jul 19, 2004 at 6:01:10 pm Re: MX priorities... by Guy Jones on Jul 19, 2004 at 9:53:33 pm