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Date:      Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:32:33 -0500
From:      Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
To:        Peter Matulis <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenBSD's spamd.
Message-ID:  <4584C861.80704@vindaloo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061217032600.1363.qmail@web60116.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20061217032600.1363.qmail@web60116.mail.yahoo.com>

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Peter Matulis wrote:

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>  my secondary MX is a FreeBSD box with no such protection and I fear
>> that 
>> the spammers will just take advantage of the fact that my secondary
>> MX 
>> has weaker protections than my primary.
> 
> Yes, best practice is to configure all MX servers in the same way. 
> Especially so if you plan to give spam servers a punch in the face
> (stuttering, greylisting, etc).  I am also interested in spamd but will
> not use it because I do not have control of the other mailservers.
> 
> 

Well, I found out the hard way. I configured my primary mailserver to 
use a few of the less political rbls and found that the spammers adapted 
by hitting my secondary MX....

-- Chris



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