Do some spammers ignore MX ptrs?

[cobalt-users1 at fishnet.co.uk]

On 27 Apr 2006 at 8:30, Michael Masse wrote:

> I'm offloading just Mailscanner services from an overloaded email store
> machine to a new machine and am doing so by pointing the MX record for
> the domain to the new machine.   The A ptr still points to the old
> system so that none of the other services this machine provides get
> interupted.     All legitimate email and most spam is going to the new
> system like it's supposed to and it then gets relayed to the old store
> machine, but I'm noticing quite a bit of spam is still being sent
> directly to the old system.     Does some spam software ignore the MX
> ptr and go to the A ptr instead, or is this more likely to be a DNS
> cache issue on the sending systems that will hopefully clear itself out
> over a few days?   

Hi,

Its not just spammers but bad programmers as well.  Several years ago I noticed that behaviour 
in some Windows email systems.  It may have been fixed now.

I never put an A record in for domain unless there is a very good reason.

Ian
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