RE: [exim] Load Reduction Trick

> The idea is to apply the following to only the lowest MX
> record but accept the message on the higher MX. I thonk 90%+ of the
spam
> never retries and therefore doesn't go through Spamassassin and
reduces
> system load.


I find that most of my spam comes in via the higher MX. I guess spammers
think that the higher MX will have less protection the lower MX server!


Gareth