Hi all,

This is a new post quoting a section of a previous post.

-snip-
Background:
The idea is to develop a config that could determine which MX record had 
been used to make the initial connection (by getting the firewall to 
forward the SMTP conversation to different ports on the same server, 
based on the IP address the connection initially came in on).
This would avoid having to have a dedicated box and dedicated config for 
each MX preference.
-snip-


I'm seeing a lot of junk-mail deliberately going for the lower 
preference MX records first (by lower preference I mean MX records with 
a higher numerical value than the others). The thought is to be more 
strict/thorough about checking connections that are initially made to 
the "wrong" MX (because I don't expect this of a "genuine" properly 
configured MTA).

Is it acceptable to just dump connections that make no attempt to follow 
the RFC's and go directly for the lower pref MX's. I have 5 other boxes 
(in separate locations) that _should_ have been tried before anyone 
would have a valid reason to connect directly to the lowest pref box.

Is anybody else already doing this?
Does it work for you?

Thanks
Jason_Meers


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