Backups still do make sense, but only if off-net in case your DC is completely unreachable, I've always run one, privately and commercially, and none of them really see much spam for a few years now, perhaps because the spammers of yesteryears think much like you do John :)
On 02/03/2015 08:47, John Levine wrote: > By the way, why do you have a backup MX? These days, it's hard to > keep the spam filtering on the backup in sync with the primaries, and > anyone who's not a spammer will wait and retry for long enough that > you're going to get all of the real mail. Backup MXes made sense in > the 1980s when networks were flaky and there were a lot of servers on > intermittent dialup connections. They don't make much sense now.
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