Joshua, C.S. Chen <cschen <at> asiaa.sinica.edu.tw> writes:

> 
> Hi folks,
> I am using spamassassin 3.1.0 and it works well. Now in my institute, we
> have 2 mx (mail servers) see it's dns record
> 
> myinstitute.edu.tw. 300 IN MX 100 mail2.myinstitute.edu.tw.
> myinstitute.edu.tw. 300 IN MX 2 mail1.myinstitute.edu.tw.
> 
> Now in most cases, spam goes to mail1 and got dropped. This is great.
> But then the spam tries to go ahead for mail2, and I did not enable
> mail2 for spamassassin (because it is mainly for redundancy, and not
> powerful enough). This makes mail2 extremely busy to send reply to the
> spammer of user unknown or other reporting messages.
> 
> My question is, if I don't want mail2 to run spamassassin, just for
> relaying messages to mail1 (as it's main purpose--redundancy), how can I
> configure mail2 "NOT TO" reply the spammer for the undelivery?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Joshua C.S. Chen
> 
> 

Can this just hint to you?
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/OtherTricks
Fake MX Records
...
So I set my highest MX record to point to an IP address that always returns a
temporary "Come Back Later" error.
...
but you need to spend time to collect ip addresses



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