[Mimedefang] Re: On pinheaded ISP's (sort of OT)

[WBrown at e1b.org]

Les wrote on 01/31/2007 03:52:58 PM:

> Is 'your' queue better than everyone else's?  Why not do a 4xx tmpfail 
> if your address check temporarily fails?  Any real MTA should be 
> prepared to queue and retry.

Why bother even having a backup MX if all it will do is return a 4xx?  Why 
not let the sending server just fail to connect you your server and it 
will retry just as long before failing.