spam getting through.

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

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Hi!

>>> 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.

It will also help with the analyze for example that spamcop does, that
also looks for MX records, so it wont harm to add a couple asap ;) Did it
some months ago for my outgoing MXes.

Bye,
Raymond.

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