Re: [Exim] Kool Spam Catching Trick

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Kool Spam Catching Trick
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:09:53PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> What I did was set a secondary MX record to be another IP on the same
> computer as my primary email server. I had noticed that some spammers
> often will email the secondary rather than the primary MX believing that
> the secondary has less filtering. In my case there never is a time when
> the secondary is up and the primary is down. So - anything coming into
> the secondary is spam.


In which case, there isn't any point in having a secondary MX at all (well,
for us, there is ... our pri and sec MXs both point to what is basically the
same cluster of machines).

But if that's just a single box that's serving as your MX ...

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