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RE: WORM_MIMAIL.A Anyone have any info on what this does yet?
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  • Subject: RE: WORM_MIMAIL.A Anyone have any info on what this does yet?
  • From: "Dick St.Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:14:17 -0400
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att13543 writes:
> I'd be interested if anyone can correlate what I've seen:  we have 2 MX
> records, one weighted at 10 (primary) and one at 20 (secondary).  Of the
> 200 or so MiMail's we've seen 100% have come through our SECONDARY mail
> server.  Maybe the SMTP engine was written poorly, or maybe it was this
> way on purpose?

We're running 4 MXs, and so far every MiMail we've seen has come to
our highest-weight MX.

[ The moderator asked me to clarify what "highest-weight" meant.  It
means highest weight in the same sense that the original posting used
"weight" - the MX with lowest weight is the primary MX. ]

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Dick St.Peters, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Gatekeeper, NetHeaven, Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga/Albany/Amsterdam/GlensFalls/Greenwich/NorthCreek/SaranacLake
    Oldest Internet service based in the Adirondack-Albany region

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