It's no less safe than a normal setup, which has a primary and secondary anyway. In this case, only if all servers 1-4 go down, does the "error" box kick in, except for SPAM, which is likely to use it first.
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 05:22 , Dale Therio wrote: > I don't think this would be safe. What if your primary goes down for > whatever reason or due to a larger network issue your primary is not > reachable? > > Dale > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:01:28 -0800 > Mailing List Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> on 3/16/02 12:12 AM, Jerry Pasker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > It is very >> >> revealing to review the logs and see that some spammers go >> >>straight for the >> >> lowest priority server. >> So why not set up an old box with sims and make it like the 5th >> priority and >> route everything to error. >> Any legitimate mail would get to your higher priority boxes and only >> spammers would hit the error box. >> just wondrin' >> M./ > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Aron S. Spencer Irvine, CA, 92612 ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
