> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:58:13PM +0200, Rene Bartsch wrote:
>
>> > Unless one is sufficiently motivated to use a separate Postfix instance
>> > for each interface, there is little to gain from different host names
>> > on different IPs.
>>
>> It's a try to avoid UCE but get valid mail fast. The idea is to set
>> the first MX-Record of the domain to an invalid hostname, the second one
>> to the first IP of Postfix and the third one to the second IP of Postfix.
>
> Sounds like a variant of "nolisting"...
>
>> My hope is spammers will give up on the first invalid MX-record while a
>> correctly configured MTA will try the second MX-record and get's a temporary
>> server error from Postfix-GLD and tries the third MX-record on
>> which Postfix-GLD accepts the mail as it has been greylisted on the
>> second MX-record/first IP, while lazy spammers will give up before.
>
> The usual suggestions apply. Scan the archives, but in a nutshell, avoid
> forcing every legitimate client to make two tries all the time.
>
>> All OpenRelay-test-tools complained about the wrong hostname
>
> Overzealous pedantry.
>

So I have something in common with that tools ;)

>> and TLS doesn't like wrong hostnames either.
>
> Can you elaborate on this? TLS looks at names in certificates, not
> at banner names...

I was under the impressesion that TLS-clients check the banner -> overzealous 
pedantry?

> I very much doubt you need the per-service "myhostname" settings.
>
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