Yes I see this on a regular basis. In my case the secondary MX forwards to the spamassassin machine so most of it gets caught anyway. A quick grep of the last 2 months of spam shows that 533 out of 6057 spams came in via my secondary MX.
However it seems that a higher percentage of SPAM that slips in beneath spamassassin came in via the secondary MX. I have been considering building a custom rule that adds a point or so for being received by the secondary MX. I'm not sure how that could be implemented in a non site specific manner Martin Nile Valley Services Electronics On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Steve Evans wrote: > I have two sendmail boxes that are front-end servers for my Exchange > server. > > Yoda has a MX value of 10. > Skywalker has a MX value of 20. > > Under normal circumstance all mail comes in through Yoda and all mail is > Sent through SkyWalker. They both take over each others roles if one > fails though. > > I have SpamAssassin installed on Yoda but not SkyWalker. I'm receiving > spam and it is going through SkyWalker. Has anyone ever heard of > spammers purposely avoiding the higher MX value? It doesn't appear that > any non-spam is coming in through SkyWalker. > > > Steve Evans > Computing Services > (619) 594-0653 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
