While I do see that most of the e-mail hitting my secondardary MX servers, there is a small amount of legit that comes through them, but I still see a lot of spam directly to the primary.
In other words, you can not look at it reliably one way or the other. John T eServices For You > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dodell > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Secondary MX as spam trap? > > 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/ 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/
