spam getting through.

[Scott Silva]

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Julian Field wrote:
> 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.
I didn't mean to block all non-MX mail relays. I am just a little
concerned about mail comming from machines that "have no business"
sending mail directly.

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