I don't have a gateway but I do have a secondary MX. I suppose an e-mail coming through my secondary MX to my trap address could cause me to start ignoring my secondary MX.
Hmmmm, should I white list my secondary MX? Don DeCosta > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Klint Gore > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SpamTrap and SMTPRCV > > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:13:43 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which ip is added to the 'X minutes' reject list? The ip in the headers > > that the email originated from, or the ip of the actual > connection to smtprcv > > that is handing off the email? > > the actual connection to smtprcv. > > > > The reason I ask is that I have a couple of gateway servers > that accept email from the > > outside world and then hand them off to my IMS server. If you > are adding the ip of > > the server in the chain that handed the message to smtprcv, > rather than the ip > > that the message originated at, then I would end up rejecting > al the messages > > from my gateway server, yikes! > > At the "rcpt to" where the test is done, it is too early to check the > received headers in the data as it hasn't been done yet. Waiting to > recieve the data makes the test equivalent of removing the user anyway. > > So for those of us behind gateways, the setting is useless. Best just > let the gateway deal with the "user not known". > > klint. > > +---------------------------------------+-----------------+ > : Klint Gore : "Non rhyming : > : EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : slang - the : > : Snail : A.B.R.I. : possibilities : > : Mail University of New England : are useless" : > : Armidale NSW 2351 Australia : L.J.J. : > : Fax : +61 2 6772 5376 : : > +---------------------------------------+-----------------+ > This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. > To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite > http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite > Rock Solid Software (tm) > This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite Rock Solid Software (tm)
