OT: secondary MX

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Fri Mar 19 00:24:57 GMT 2004


Hi!

> Question...  My site has one MX record, always has.  If I define a
> higher value MX for the spammers (pointing to nothing running mail),
> how badly would I shoot myself in the foot?  Let the spammers /dev/null
> themselves and real email go to the primary MX?

If you have connecivity problems or a faillure on your main box you loose
mail, dont do it :) I would consider this very tricky and asking for
trouble :)

Bye,
Raymond.



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