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Re: Question about Qmail relating to MX retry processing

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Subject: Re: Question about Qmail relating to MX retry processing
From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:18:09 +0100 (CET)
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+ Uncle George <qmail@gatworks.com>:

| As eventually you will find that the errant spammers will find the
| hole in your filtering scheme, and not bother with the lowest [...]

AFAIK, this is already the case.  Much spam is sent directly to an MX
other than the lowest numbered one, without bothering with the lowest
one at all.  Imagine that - spammers intentionally violating Internet
protocols!  8-)

- Harald

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