On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:07:11AM -0600, Terry Poperszky wrote: > I maintain about 20 different domain registrations, only a couple of > which receive emails (At least legitimate ones). One domain that had > been receiving emails and was now defunct, was still receiving hundreds > of SPAM mails per day. In effort to cut them down I removed the MX > records from that domains zone, last night I got a call from the ISP > that hosts the web site and he said that he was now getting the brunt of > that traffic. Now, I am just a tad confused, he does not, nor has ever > hosted the email for this domain, why in the world would he be getting > them?
In the absense of MX records, MTAs try the A record if it exists
(it's a "fake" "MX 0" record). So you probably have an A or CNAME for
"domain.com" to your webserver, which means the mail goes to your ISP now.
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