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Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email


From: Piotr KUCHARSKI <chopin () sgh waw pl>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 02:30:32 +0200


On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:08:23AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
What about setting your highest order MX and lowest order MX to point to
the same set of mail servers, and hide your backup servers in the
middle.
Devious. ;)

Another: highest MX pointing to server which only responds after 5-10 secs
with 451 instead of 220-hello -- MTAs will try different MX, spammers will
try to send or disconnect, but mails will be rejected anyway.

p.

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