OpenBSD's spamd.
Christopher Hilton
chris at vindaloo.com
Sat Dec 16 20:32:39 PST 2006
Peter Matulis wrote:
[ snip ]
> my secondary MX is a FreeBSD box with no such protection and I fear
>> that
>> the spammers will just take advantage of the fact that my secondary
>> MX
>> has weaker protections than my primary.
>
> Yes, best practice is to configure all MX servers in the same way.
> Especially so if you plan to give spam servers a punch in the face
> (stuttering, greylisting, etc). I am also interested in spamd but will
> not use it because I do not have control of the other mailservers.
>
>
Well, I found out the hard way. I configured my primary mailserver to
use a few of the less political rbls and found that the spammers adapted
by hitting my secondary MX....
-- Chris
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