[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Seymour) writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But in any case, >> I run the same filters on my secondary server. Both the IP and the HELO >> checks would be quite useless if I used an MX that wouldn't support 'em.
> Yup. If you can't employ the same anti-UCE checks on a secondary as > you can on a primary, dump the secondary. Secondary MX' are of no > value if they just queue things up for the primary, anyway. Nowadays, yeah :-(. Still another part of the internet that spammers have managed to render nonfunctional --- backup MX service used to be essential, but now it's better to risk losing incoming mail than to accept a ton of spam that didn't get filtered properly. Just a couple weeks ago I was complaining to my new ISP because he'd set up a backup MX for sss.pgh.pa.us without asking me whether I wanted it. It's *way* past time to declare open season... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend