Author: Wakko Warner Date: To: Jeff Lasman CC: Exim-Users Subject: Re: [Exim] me again
> we've got a domain that used to belong to an ISP. So much spam it's > incredible. We point web requests to it to our own webhosting domain.
>
> The email was so ridiculous to it we finally, in desperation, set the mx
> to a pointer to 127.0.0.1.
>
> We set it back recently, and it's still getting tons of junk. Spammers
> don't even remove addresses from lists when they hit their own systems.
Probably because 127.0.0.1 isn't their own system. Most spammers use open
proxies/open relays or some other relay. Atleast I know some spammers
operate that way. The ones that spam from dialups/etc probably check for
127.x.x.x that it won't matter.
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