At 11:40 -0500 14/03/02, Paul Hess wrote:
>Please see the quoted headers below.  I am receiving a lot of spam 
>coming through my ISP's mail server (which is listed in my MX 
>records as a secondary mail server).  In most cases, the spam would 
>have been blocked by my server due to use of RBL lists, but since it 
>comes through mx2.cais.net it does not get blocked by me.

Annoying, isn't it?  I finally dropped my ISP as secondary for this 
exact reason.

>Is this a strategy that spammers are using, deliberately routing 
>through secondary mail servers when they can't deliver directly?

Some spammers seem to be routing ONLY via secondaries, avoiding the 
spam protection on the front end.

>   Is there any way around this other than me telling CAIS to no 
>longer provide backup mail service?

I shared secondary services with another SIMS user.


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