> So I need to get rid of the MX records for unfiltered.websiteworld.com?

As   of   right  now,  you  don't  have  any  active  MX  records  for
unfiltered.websiteworld.com.

You have two redundant records for websiteworld.com:

    websiteworld.com IN MX 10 mail.websiteworld.com

    websiteworld.com IN MX 100 mail.websiteworld.com

You only need one of these.

For unfiltered, you have active only an A record:

    unfiltered.websiteworld.com IN A 216.23.168.147

So mail will end up going to the A record. Adding an actual MX instead
for  unfiltered is a good idea. Either way, a smart spammer could well
figure  out  that if the subdomain unfiltered.websiteworld.com exists,
that  sounds  a  good  place to send spam, so you need to keep this as
private   as   possible   (not  from  client  DNS  queries,  where  it
realistically  has  to  be  published  to route mail, but in any other
communication,  including ensuring that zone transfers are not allowed
and not listing such addresses on the web).

-Sandy


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Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
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