That would be a reasonable supposition 

--srs

> On 28-Feb-2016, at 8:53 AM, Mark Jeftovic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 2016-02-27 9:59 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> A domain with a null mx may well originate email but will absolutely not 
>> receive email - so mail gets trashed at your end as well without staying 
>> endlessly on your mall queues 
>> 
>> You can possibly correlate that mx with the behavior of domains that are 
>> sending you mail.. Though a domain rather than IP bl may make sense.
> 
> Sorry, I realized after I sent that I needed to clarify that what I'm
> observing are MTAs attempting to deliver email to addresses at IP of the
> A record for the domain, ignoring the presence of its NULL MX.
> 
> So the originating MTAs are ignoring the NULL MX and attempting to
> deliver to the A hostname, leading me to surmise they are spambots or
> zombies.
> 
> - mark
> 
>> --srs
>> 
>>> On 28-Feb-2016, at 8:07 AM, Mark Jeftovic <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What is an MTA supposed to do with a message addressed to a domain with
>>> a NULL MX?
>>> 
>>> RFC 7505 talks about domains with a NULL MX should not originate email
>>> (in their sender envelopes, etc) but what about the converse?
>>> 
>>> I'm looking at some logs and seeing attempts to deliver email to lots of
>>> domains with NULL MX enabled (that have been so for years) and wondering
>>> if I can safely mine these logs and add all the originating MTA IPs to
>>> an internal RBL.
>>> 
>>> I think I can. I think I will.
>>> 
>>> - mark
>>> 
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