sobig.f and secondary MX

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Aug 21 21:04:14 IST 2003


How about you make them the same priority and just share the load between
the two?

At 20:49 21/08/2003, you wrote:
>My secondary MX machine is having a hard time keeping up with the
>mailscanning of so many sobig.f virus infected emails, while my
>primary MX machines are not.
>
>I have found some clues that sobig.f's SMTP engine likes to send to
>the secondary MX machine.
>
>What happens if I keep my secondary MX machine off line for a few days.
>
>Does anybody know what sobig.f does when it can't get thru to the
>secondary MX.
>
>Thanks in advance for any insights.
>
>mark

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