Yep. There's only one mail server involved, no primary or secondary, and spamd is running on the main.
The next time I get a spam mail I will try matching it against the rule like you recommend in your other e-mail. Any advice on how to get syslogd working with spamd? Do I have it set up correctly and I'm just not catching anything or ..? --Michael On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Michael Anuzis wrote: > > > Any advice/insight available as to why this is not working for me? Am I > > just *really* unlucky and the few spammers that hit me (I only get around > > 5 spams a day, but that's what it's always been) are smart enough to dodge > > spews? > > You're running the spamd rdr on your mail exchanger, right? > > $ nslookup > > set type=mx > > benzedrine.cx > benzedrine.cx mail exchanger = 0 insomnia.benzedrine.cx. > benzedrine.cx mail exchanger = 5 narcolepsy.benzedrine.cx. > > Mails will get sent to either of those two hosts, and the spamd > redirection is only effective if it's running equally on both mx. > > If you run the setup only on the primary mx, the spammers will > automatically deliver to the secondary. And since you'll be accepting > mail from your secondaries, you'll still get the spam. > > It should be obvious if you know how mail works, but maybe it should be > mentioned as a drawback of this method: you have to run it on all your > mail exchangers (might be impossible if you're using secondaries that > you don't have control over). > > Daniel > >
