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In <BvtKy7.4qr@rahul.net> dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>c: Several MX records are often assumed to be more reliable for mail.
>   However, it's not clear to me that they buy you much.  Presumably if
>   foo.company.uk is down, mail will remain queued for it at one of the
>   MX hosts.  It might as well just remain queued at the sending host.

Multiple MX records have several advantages.
 
   1) Better use of network bandwidth because you don't get
      machines all over the Internet making repeated attempts to deliver
      mail to a dead machine.

   2) Faster delivery of backlogged mail once the dead machine is 
      back in operation since the mail is queued locally and can be
      delivered at ethernet speeds.
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