From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: stewart@serissa.com (Lawrence Stewart) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:30:21 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run? In-Reply-To: References: <20170920162502.GN25650@mcvoy.com> <201709201639.v8KGdGhC024387@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <83CD6BB4-9617-47F9-A87E-55C447D5F1CC@bitblocks.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Robert Brockway wrote: > I do some additional tricks like requring the sending MTA to hold the connection open for (IIRC) 10 seconds before I will accept traffic. This drives up spammers costs (and everyone elses :( ) but definitely helps. We have 3 MX records with weights 10 50 100, but only the second one has an SMTP server behind it. This tends to discourage spammers. (Postfix, Ubuntu, on a Rackspace instance) -L