spam getting through.

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 15 18:40:16 IST 2004


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At 18:15 15/09/2004, you wrote:
>I am also using it at entry with Sendmail. I have days where the spam is
>over 90% and no complaints for over 9 months. My only thought was to
>just use SBL to avoid some of the dynamic IP checks. But I am not sure I
>want mail from anyone not relaying through their ISP or at least a host
>with a MX record.

Please don't start blocking mail coming from servers that aren't MX's. We,
along with many other large sites, treat incoming and outgoing mail as
different services and run them on different servers. Obviously my outgoing
relays don't have MX records as they do not listen for mail from outside
our site, that's the job of the incoming mail servers.
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