Re: Secondary MX behaviour

2014-09-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse: > Tricks with MX-priority spamtraps share the problem that they make > assumptions about the behavior of all legitimate MTAs. > For a related approach, see, for example, "nolisting". Daniel Miller: > Do I infer from that MX-priority spamtraps are a Bad Idea - at least in > the real world?

Re: Secondary MX behaviour

2014-09-10 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:55:47AM -0700, Daniel Miller wrote: > Temporarily at least I'll drop the secondaries from my DNS and see if it > helps - but I still think there's something broken on their end. I just > don't know how to express it properly beyond, "it's wrong, and it's on your > end".

Re: Secondary MX behaviour

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Miller
On 9/10/2014 10:35 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Daniel Miller: This question is actually two questions - neither of which are Postfix-specific but email-generic - but this list is the best resource I have to ask such questions. First - I've been contributing to "Project Tarbaby", which means I have

Re: Secondary MX behaviour

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Miller
On 9/10/2014 10:24 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: If your system ever responds with a 4XX, retries will hit the secondaries. You need to at least exclude clients that first tried the primary and tempfailed. However, transient connection or DNS problems can also cause a legitimate client to skip the

Re: Secondary MX behaviour

2014-09-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Daniel Miller: > This question is actually two questions - neither of which are > Postfix-specific but email-generic - but this list is the best resource > I have to ask such questions. > > First - I've been contributing to "Project Tarbaby", which means I have > a pair of secondary MX records

Re: Secondary MX behaviour

2014-09-10 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:02:30AM -0700, Daniel Miller wrote: > This question is actually two questions - neither of which are > Postfix-specific but email-generic - but this list is the best resource I > have to ask such questions. > > First - I've been contributing to "Project Tarbaby", which

Secondary MX behaviour

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Miller
This question is actually two questions - neither of which are Postfix-specific but email-generic - but this list is the best resource I have to ask such questions. First - I've been contributing to "Project Tarbaby", which means I have a pair of secondary MX records below my primary which acc