At 7:04 PM -0500 2/20/02, Stefan Jeglinski wrote: >>Try this: >> >>my.domain MX 5 primary.mail.server >>my.domain MX 10 secondary.mx.server >>my.domain MX 20 another.name.for.primary.mail.server >> >>Spammers have learned that backup MX's accept more spam. Making your primary a >'tertiary' server as well gets them to try it first instead of the real backup. > >I implemented this a while back. It's hard to normalize the effectiveness of this >approach compared to the other spam fighting tools in SIMS without a lot of log >analysis. But it does make a difference. The separate problem is, of course, if your >primary disappears off the net for whatever reason, so does the tertiary, and the >spam still comes through the secondary. > >Not all spammers must be idiots though I guess. Since I still have spam coming >through my secondary,
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