MX choosing
Feng He
shorttag at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 13:01:06 UTC 2011
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
>
> The question of whether a sender should attempt retries using the
> different addresses of a multihomed host has been controversial. The
> main argument for using the multiple addresses is that it maximizes the
> probability of timely delivery, and indeed sometimes the probability of
> any delivery; the counter-argument is that it may result in unnecessary
> resource use.
>
In any case, the SMTP client SHOULD try at least two addresses.
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