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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:09:59 -0700
From:      Pat Lashley <patl@volant.org>
To:        Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about virus/spam filtering for customers with mail servers
Message-ID:  <2773213520.1090962599@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org>
In-Reply-To: <41065E5F.9020108@buckhorn.net>
References:  <41056580.3050007@wintek.com> <1925363520.1090913171@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> <41065E5F.9020108@buckhorn.net>

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--On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 08:53:35 -0500 Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> wrote:

> The issue here isn't the MTA. It's running a primary server
> as a secondary, with the DNS "primary" being unreachable.
>
> Exim can't fix that, nor postfix or any other MTA.
>
> The first server to receive the mail should be the primary in DNS.

Yes, it should.  My response was too terse; I should have made
it clear that what is trivial in Exim is setting up a router/
transport to forward the customer's mail to a specific host
rather than using MX records.  That would completely eliminate
the need for an MX record pointing to the customer's server.




-Pat



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