Hi David, Can you install the anti spam and anti virus software also on the second machine?
============================================ Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 um 15:23 schrieben Sie: > 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/ ============================================ -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 44 391 30 00 Fax: +41 44 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. NOD32 Antivirus System .:. BlueDragon .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer .:. SmarterTools -------------------------------------------- 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/
