One thing they could do, is restrict incoming e-mail by IP address to only
your server IP.

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You


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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 8:40 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Client receiving E-mail to non-MX address
> 
> I have a client that we switched over to our service last Thursday.  The
> mail server is located at mail.domain.tld (according to the A record),
> but their MX records on their authoritative DNS server both point to
> us.  Unfortunately, they are still receiving E-mail directed at their
> server instead of going through ours.
> 
> Is this a common long-term issue where some spamware will automatically
> try the mail.domain.tld address, or is it possible that this is being
> cached for this long?  I don't believe there are any issues with
> timeouts causing this E-mail to fall over to other addresses, and their
> site is on an address range that is different from their mail server.  I
> would hate to have to tell clients that they have to change the name of
> their SMTP server if it's called "mail."
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
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