In article <81acc49e-3f6c-0905-a952-f4786841a...@pscs.co.uk> you write: >There's also the opposite anti-spam trick that I've heard of: > >have two MX records. The higher priority MX just doesn't exist and the >real mail server is the lower priority one. Badly written spam software >will try the higher one and when that doesn't respond, it'll give up. >Well written mail senders try the higher one, then use the lower one >when the higher one doesn't respond.
I tried that for a while. I found that some senders took quite a while to give up on the nolist host and go to the backup so it caused noticable mail delays. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
