Klint,

Spam levels have recently gotten so high that my gateways were getting
overwhelmed. So I have recently set up two IMS servers to receive email
directly from the internet using smtprcv so that right off the bat I can
reject emails to invalid addresses, thereby reducing my incoming email load
by 40%. So these two servers ARE my new gateways, and where I'd like to run
the spam trap. However, I do have two backup MX servers that could very possibly
send messages to these two IMS servers, and it is these backup MX servers I 
want to
whitelist against being barred by the spam trap.

Thanks!
-Alan

>
>But in your case (and mine, with receivers in front of ims) spam trap is
>not worth bothering with. The point of it is to temporarily ban ip
>addresses from sending more spam to your server.  With the gateways,
>that address is not able to be determined without receiving the entire
>message first. So the benefit you get from banning the IP is negated by
>having to receive the message in entirety anyway.
>
>klint.

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