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by jlgaddis 4007 days ago
Some hosts are doing away with backup MX hosts (including me/work) simply because a) any sane sender will retry for a period of at least several hours and b) sending via the backup MX is a common way for spammers to (attempt to) increase the chances of their mails getting delivered (e.g., due to lack of/decreased filtering on backup MX hosts).