On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:55 -0600, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
Exactly. There are two problems. The fallback or secondary MX record in DNS and the mail server connection failure that causes the secondary MX record to be used.
FWIW, I haven't had any problems with connecting to the mail server in the last year. I suspect that those having problems have smart SMTP hosts on bad connections. Which is just made worse by the bad MX record...