How can a flag mail from specific mail relays as spam

[BB]

Not terrible concerned about the primary, we are the primary and
haven't been down for any length of time in years.  As was posted some
time ago, the rational of a secondary is questionable.

We have a full T1 and don't appear to really ever have bottlenecks.

If I blacklist the IP of our secondary will that flag spam as From: ?

btb


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:39:09 -0800, Kevin Miller
<kevin_miller at ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
> BB wrote:
> > Recently had discussions about secondary mail server giving us the
> > most spam.  Some of it still gets through sa filters.
> >
> > Would actually like to create our own secondary and setup as tarpit
> > as no valid mail should be sent to them if primary is up.
> >
> > Before doing the above, is there a way to flag mail coming from the
> > secondary as spam ?
>
> Sure, couple of things you could do - set MS to change the subject to
> reflect the source, i.e., prepend "Tarpit" to the front of the subject line,
> set your spam score to -25 or something like that; all mail would then be
> spam.
>
> But if your primary fails, you'll have legitimate mail going to the
> secondary.  FWIW, I do get a fair amount of ham going to my secondary
> servers, probably because the primary is on a congested line.  You'll
> probably need to watch pretty closely the first week or so.
>
> > Doesn't blacklisting from only apply to the sender domain  and not
> > the relays between ?
>
> I think so, but may well be wrong...
>
> ...Kevin
>

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