spam getting through.

[Julian Field]

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At 19:58 15/09/2004, you wrote:
>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 ?

I probably will when I find someone blocking mail from non-MX's.
Fortunately it hasn't happened yet. I just have a domain-wide set of MX
records, I don't have MX records for any individual machines.

Good idea though.
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