Yes, the point was that that box is listed at 5th priority, so that it only gets mail sent to it if boxes 1-4 are all down, or... if a spammer decides to try high priority first in order to avoid anti-spam measures.
On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 03:41 , Dale Therio wrote: > I replied to the wrong email :) > > There was one with something about having a box confiugred where > everything was routed to null to fake out spammers - that is the one I > had intended on replying to with the "not safe" bit :) > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:03:20 -0800 > Aron S. Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 >> > > > ############################################################# > 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]>
