[mailop] v4 vs v6 MXs

2023-06-15 Thread James Cloos via mailop
Would any common MTAs in use have any problems with delivery to a destination where a subset of its MXs are v4-only and another (non- intersecting) subset are v6-only? I presume that any rfc-compliant MTA would do the right thing. At least in theory. But would such an arrangement work in practice

Re: [mailop] What's the point of secondary MX servers?

2020-12-18 Thread James Cloos via mailop
> "JL" == John Levine via mailop writes: JL> But now, in 2020, is there a point to secondary servers? Since 05 or so I've used two MX in geo-distanced datacentres at the same priority. Some senders ony ever use one or the other, but it still works better than anything else i've tested. -Ji

Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..)

2019-05-10 Thread James Cloos via mailop
> "CW" == Chris Woods via mailop writes: CW> Like others I've reached the end of my tether with DO. In my case, I've CW> seen increasing volumes of malicious / junk traffic via their IPv6 CW> prefixes, with reports to abuse doing virtually nothing, so now I just CW> define ip/ip6tables drop r