Re: [exim] Load Reduction Trick

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Gareth Hastings
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Subject: Re: [exim] Load Reduction Trick


Gareth Hastings wrote:
> 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!
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> Gareth
>

Another trick I do is I set the highest MX to a dead IP addres or rather
return DEFER on the highest MX. I get rid of about 120,000 spams a day
doing that.


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