On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:58:13PM +0200, Rene Bartsch wrote:

> > Unless one is sufficiently motivated to use a separate Postfix instance
> > for each interface, there is little to gain from different host names
> > on different IPs.
> 
> It's a try to avoid UCE but get valid mail fast. The idea is to set
> the first MX-Record of the domain to an invalid hostname, the second one
> to the first IP of Postfix and the third one to the second IP of Postfix.

Sounds like a variant of "nolisting"...

> My hope is spammers will give up on the first invalid MX-record while a
> correctly configured MTA will try the second MX-record and get's a temporary
> server error from Postfix-GLD and tries the third MX-record on
> which Postfix-GLD accepts the mail as it has been greylisted on the
> second MX-record/first IP, while lazy spammers will give up before.

The usual suggestions apply. Scan the archives, but in a nutshell, avoid
forcing every legitimate client to make two tries all the time.

> All OpenRelay-test-tools complained about the wrong hostname

Overzealous pedantry.

> and TLS doesn't like wrong hostnames either.

Can you elaborate on this? TLS looks at names in certificates, not
at banner names...

I very much doubt you need the per-service "myhostname" settings.

-- 
        Viktor.

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