[lug] Spam solutions

Ken MacFerrin lists at macferrin.com
Tue Jan 23 11:03:37 MST 2007


David Morris wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:48:28AM -0700, Steve Webb wrote:
>> Another good spam-prevention technique in Slashdot today
>> (suggests that spam-bots don't try a second DNS MX record,
>> so point your primary MX at a bogus server and only
>> compliant servers will hit your real one (marked as
>> secondary)):
> 
> Nice theory, but over half my spam arrives through my
> secondary mail server.
> 

Yep.. I stopped running a backup MX server for that exact reason.
-Ken



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