Thanks, Len ... but my IMGate box isn't new and I don't have much confidence in its life, so I keep the IMail box as a backup MX. Hopefully I'll get a little more in the budget next year for a new IMGate box.
Christopher Checca Packard Transport, Inc. IT Department 24021 South Municipal Dr PO Box 380 Channahon, IL. 60410 815 467 9260 815 467 6939 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.packardtransport.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] suggestions... >I have two MX's, my IMGate and IMail. The IMGate is 10 and the IMail is 20 mistake. with a front-end MX, remove the mailbox server from MX records. This is my standard advice for all IMGate users. and if possible, block access from internet to Imail port 25. >I see that I have a lot of spam go directly to the secondary MX All MX records get hit by abuse. Imail removed from MX records will still get spam, but much less. >. Does >anyone see an issue if I add another MX record for IMGate as 30? useless and counter-productive. Spammers will hit all 3 MXs, wasting more of your bandwidth, with no advantage to you. >To me the >current batch of spam is looking at the last MX server to send too. probably not, but some spammers may have realized that secondary MXs have the dumb mistake of having less restrictive/no policies than the primary MX, so the backup MX is a "trusted" open door. >I need a backup MX Probably not. backup MXs are highly over-rated. IMGate is more robust and simpler than IMail. Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites 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/
