--On 23 June 2003 08:48 -0600 Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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The secondary mail exchanger tries to send the message on to its destination, but the mail is bounced by the primary mail host (either as spam or because it has been sent to an invalid address). So, the secondary dutifully tries to notify the sender that the message didn't get through.
Of course, the "From:" and "Reply-to:" headers of the spam contain either a completely bogus address or one that has quickly been shut down due to spamming. So, the host, not knowing what else to do, sends a notice to Postmaster, saying that the notice to the sender could not be delivered.
What's the easiest way to suppress this resource-consuming, mailbox clogging chain reaction?
Carefully check out the sendmail "Double Bounce Address" option, with a view to piping it to /dev/null [Like I said, 'carefully' check this out :)]
Or, secondly - as was cleverly suggested to me a while ago - setup a 3rd MX that has a IN A PTR to your primary MX, and make it the highest priority...
e.g.
mx0.mydomain.com PRI 20 mx1.mydomain.com PRI 30 mx2.mydomain.com PRI 40 (Which is really just a different name for mx0)
That way, you'll probably find most the spam hits the highest priority MX (which is, in reality your primary MX).
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