Like most good mail servers, we used to have secondary MX servers at off-site locations to spool our email when our primary mail server was down, or we lost our connectivity.
Unfortunately, most of the spammers thought this was a backdoor to get spam through to the primary server, and we ended loosing secondary mx agreements because of this. I'm thinking of putting up another mail server with a secondary MX to almost act as a spam trap. If I put in a secondary MX, will the spammers lay off the primary mail machine and put their energy into the secondary machine with my idea of taking off the load of some of the dictionary attacks etc on the primary machine. The primary machine would still run AntiVirus/Antispam software/etc so anything that might be legitimate would still forward to the primary, but do you think this machine would just bring an increase spam load to our network connectivity and not really draw away some of the load from the primary machine? David To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
