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Claus Aßmann -no-copies-please  
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 More options Oct 19 2004, 10:45 pm
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From: Claus Aßmann <ca+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@mine.informatik.uni-kiel.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:45:05 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Tues, Oct 19 2004 10:45 pm
Subject: Re: Mailertable - Using comma to simulate MX
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 wrote:
> AFAIK, the ':' will act like a weighted MX record.
> And using ',' (comma) is the same as a round-robin MX:

Note: only ':' is documented behavior and only for listing
hosts for IPC mailers, see doc/op/op.*:

     If  the  mailer  is  the built-in IPC mailer, the host may
     be a colon-separated  list  of hosts  that  are  searched
     in  order for the first working address (exactly  like  MX
     records).

Using ':' in other places or using ',' means that you rely on an
undocumented implementation detail which may or may not change at
any time.

The proper way to implement what you want is to use MX records.
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