On Tuesday 26 August 2008 11:12:23 Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Robert Schetterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Project Tarbaby helps you reduce spam and helps us build our blacklist. > > This is done by adding a fake MX record to your existing MX lists > > > > thats could be seen as a security risk > > cause in rare cases you may recieve legal mails > > i.e at an network outage etc > > How? He tempfails all mails.
I think we had that discussion already, The problem is that most admins wouldn't trust their entire mail traffic to a random person "on the internet" ;) The other is that some broken MTAs don't try the actual valid MX again if they get a _temp_ fail from one, while no connection from the other. Of course if you have multiple MX, with 100% uptime, thats a non issue. But you're propably a large hoster then anyway, with own data center. Then there's the issue that the projetcs MX could be sending mails in your name, and some postmasters won't even relize this is not you, since it's officially your MX. No offense intended, the author is most likely not doing anything bad on purpose. The suggested solution was iirc, to provide the source for the harvesting service, so everyone can submit a feed to a common repo. Just summing up the previous discussion. Personally i wouldn't offer my customers domains, but i could add my private one, since i don't care who reads my mails anyway. -- best regards Arvid Ephraim Picciani
