I recently shut down my backup mail server. All it seemed to be doing was collecting spam. It had been a while since a legit message was sent thru it, and since I was loosing my static IP at home where I had my backup mail server, I just decided to get rid of it. I figure that any legit email will retry enough times that I should still get it in the event my main server goes offline (which I'm expecting if/when it does, it would be for less than 24 hours)
My question is... since spammers seem to like sending to backup mail servers when they are present, what's the opinion of leaving my DNS to point to a now non existent backup server? Is there any harm in doing this? It would seem to me that any legit mail server will try the backup server, find it too doesn't respond, and then hold the message to try again at a later time. In theory, my main server would be back online before the sending server gives up. So the only thing I see by leaving the IP pointing to a non server, is all the spammers will leave my main server alone thinking the backup server is present. They would try it, and when it doesn't respond, they would give up. Is that true, or are spammers more patient then I am giving them credit for, and they will work their way up the MX list and try my main server when the backup doesn't respond. Opinions? -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ############################################################# 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]>
