Re: [9fans] spam protection vs. secondary mx'es

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

i had this problem a while back.  i eventually convinced
my secondary to run greylisting, but in the mean time i
just dropped my secondary mx.

- erik

On Wed Nov 29 04:42:41 EST 2006, r.raschke@tombobWegDamit.com wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> how do people use greylisting and /mail/lib/sender protection in the
> presence of a secondary MX?
>
> My greylisting is roughly 80% useless, since spammers appear to know
> that a secondary MX will effectively bypass the greylist protection.
>
> Having recently started using /mail/lib/senders, I am seeing a lot of
> rejections due to the secondary MX. At the moment it does not really
> look like I am loosing any real mailing list traffic, but it is
> slightly disconcerting, since a network outage near me will probably
> mean I'll be rejecting real traffic once things are back.
>
> I am starting to question my belief in running my own mail server.  Do
> people just use gmail or something and not bother with anything else?
>
> Robby
>
> --
> "Weg damit" is german for "get rid of this".