Message Delivery Parent topic

TippingPoint Advanced Threat Protection for Email maintains a routing table based on domains and email addresses. TippingPoint Advanced Threat Protection for Email uses this routing table to route email messages (with matching recipient domains or email addresses) to specified destination servers or to destination servers that match specified mail exchanger records (MX records).
There are two message delivery methods:
  • Look up MX record
    When delivering an email message using MX record lookup, TippingPoint Advanced Threat Protection for Email queries the specified MX record, and then delivers the email message to the destination server identified by the MX record.
  • Specify servers
    When delivering an email message using specified servers, TippingPoint Advanced Threat Protection for Email first sends the email message to the destination server with the highest priority. If the server is unavailable, TippingPoint Advanced Threat Protection for Email chooses the remaining servers in descending order of their priority. If multiple destination servers have the same priority, TippingPoint Advanced Threat Protection for Email randomly selects a server for message delivery.
Email messages destined to unspecified domains and email addresses are routed based on the records in the Domain Name Server (DNS). For example, if the delivery domain includes example.com and the associated SMTP server is 10.10.10.10 on port 25, then all email messages sent to example.com deliver to the SMTP server at 10.10.10.10 using port 25.