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by retrogradeorbit 2744 days ago
That's what a secondary MX is for.
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A secondary MX record doesn't solve the problem of "accept email and silently route to /dev/null".

Aside telling the sender or receiver, there's no good way to know. I guess you could send a test email every hour.... But this is an evil failure mode. This isn't an accident.