[Gllug] How to handle spam bounces from secondary MX server

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Dec 8 12:54:21 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:43:44PM -0000, John Winters wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:26:11PM -0000, John Winters wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Is there another step which I can take to get rid of these? They're only
> >> a
> >> minor annoyance, but I'm aware they're taking up resources (for
> >> temporary
> >> storage and retries) on the secondary server.
> >
> > This one's easy: get rid of the secondary MXer. Really.
> >
> > What benefit is the secondary giving you anyway?
> 
> Interesting idea.  Isn't there (wasn't there?) a requirement to have a
> secondary as well as a primary?

Yes there is.
It is a good idea because there are some crappy MTAs that bounce mail
after a very short time if they can't get through -- which could happen if
your main MX is offline for whatever reason.

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