OT: secondary MX

[Mike Zanker]

On 18 March 2004 13:58 -0700 Dustin Baer <dustin_baer at IHS.COM> wrote:

> I just added a secondary MX for our domains.  I am absolutely amazed
> at how fast the spammers realized it was open for traffic.

Nothing amazing about it. Their software looks up the MX records for a
domain and often uses the lowest priority one. So as soon as your
secondary MX goes in the DNS, the spamming software will start using it.

Mike.