Testing SMTP over IPv6

Matt Crawford crawdad@fnal.gov
Wed, 01 Dec 1999 09:21:49 -0600


> If you are mixing IPv4 & IPv6 servers in the MX list,  it is important that
> the MX list be set in the following manner...
> 
> IPv6 only servers		MX    a
> IPv6 + IPv4 servers		MX    b
> IPv4 only servers		MX    c
> 
> Where a < b < c

No, this sort of ordering is only important if not all the servers
can do "final delivery" (i.e., take the message out of the SMTP
world).