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Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Fri Jul 8 15:33:27 2005

Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:09:09 -0400
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Patrick Muldoon <doon@inoc.net>
Cc: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <42CB4654.7060103@inoc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On 7/5/2005 10:47 PM, Patrick Muldoon wrote:

> Even better if you can implement something that auto blacklists 
> people that connect to your "secondary" MX's when you know that your 
> primaries are up and accepting e-mail.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WrongMXPlugin is a SpamAssassin plugin
that "determines if an email was sent to a lower preference MX when a
higher preference MX was likely available."

Haven't used it but it's an interesting idea on my to-examine list

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