On 2008-04-03, Jose Fragoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The real MTA is not involved here. What's important is that "spamd  with
> the
>> low priority MX address active must see all the greylist changes for a
>> higher priority MX host for the same domains, either by being synchro-
>> nised with it, or by receiving the connections itself". (from the man
> page).
>
> Yes. But the man page does not say how SPAMD would behave if the real MTA
> (high priority MX) is down. In such a situation, a remote host trying to
> deliver a message to a given domain, will try the real MTA first (and
> SPAMD will see this pass through). Since it is down, the host will next
> try to make an SMTP connection to the low-pri MX address, which is
> controlled by SPAMD, right?

If you run spamd -M then you must have more than one IP address
that is handled by spamd.

e.g.

MX 0 mailhost
MX 10 spamd
MX 20 spamd (-M address)

> This is what my question is about. How will SPAMD react to this connection?

If you don't have the other address (MX 10 in my example) it will
just block the sender straight away.

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