spam getting through.

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Wed Sep 15 19:58:57 IST 2004


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Hi Julian,

>> 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.

Why dont you simply set an MX for those outgoing servers to your incoming
MX ?

Bye,
Raymond

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