On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 08:59:32PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > And this is the problem: by the time any MX has accepted e-mail for you, > you've lost the chance to do a whole set of anti-spam checks. If you > control the backup MX, you can set it to do the same checks as your main > MX. If you don't, then your backup MX is a highway around your anti-spam > defences. And spammers know this. Their tools know this. This just amounts to "don't use an ummaintained machine with no anti-spam tools for your backup MX". I don't see why that in any way invalidates the whole idea. (In fact, for the reasons you describe, one might want to have *stricter* spam checking rules on the backup MX.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.
