[wplug-plan] Anti-spam ... Fw: wplug-bsd post from wavtxyptzewrcc at acceleratedsearch.com requires approval

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Feb 24 12:12:26 EST 2005


"James O'Kane" <jo2y at midnightlinux.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone legit out there using EasyDNS to send mail?  Can we have
> > penguin reject mail from easydns servers?
> 
> easydns is providing the backup mx service. I suspect that penguin rejects 
> the message, and the spammer uses the next mx in the list. If you have a 
> suggestion on improving the setup, admin at wplug would be the place to send 
> it.

Didn't notice that.

If I had my way, we wouldn't be using anything for backup MX, penguin
seems to have a reliable connection, so I don't expect the backup MX
is adding much value - but it _is_ letting spam through.

Who is admin at wplug.org?

> [jo2y at outpost ~]$ dig mx wplug.org
> [...]
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> wplug.org.              86400   IN      MX      10 mail.wplug.org.
> wplug.org.              86400   IN      MX      20 smtp.easydns.com.
> wplug.org.              86400   IN      MX      30 smtp2.easydns.com.
> [...]
> 
> 
> -james
> 
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