Re: [exim] Spammers keep lists of MX long after DNS MX has b…

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Lähettäjä: Thomas Hochstein
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Vastaanottaja: exim-users
Aihe: Re: [exim] Spammers keep lists of MX long after DNS MX has been deleted
"Alan J. Flavell" schrieb:

> This might be well known, but we've noticed that spammers must be
> keeping lists of old MX entries, long after we've considered the
> associated email domains to be obsolete and have deleted the MX
> entries in the DNS.


I can second that. They do keep the IP of the former MX host, not only
the hostname; the A record of my old MX is now pointing to a different
IP for weeks, but I get the bulk of spam at the old host.

-thh