SpamAssassin Hangup

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat wrote:

> Ouch!  You will reject some legitimate mails.  If no MX is defined for a
> host, mail will go directly to that host if it has an A record.

If they don't have an MX record, the DNS administrator is incompetent,
and they're likely to have other problems (open relay, open proxy, etc).

> I have lots of legit mails coming/going to such hosts.  These are mostly
> in east Asia.

Quite.  I get buckets of spam from them, too.

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