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

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Mon Dec 8 12:41:06 UTC 2008


John Winters wrote:
> There's a particular regular spam item with a subject like "Your order"
> which is always sent to the secondary MX, and always carries the same
> e-mail address (i.e. mine) in both the From: and To: fields.  The
> secondary MX then can't deliver it (because it scores way over 12) and
> eventually returns a bounce to the apparent sender (i.e. me).
>
> 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.

Your secondary MX needs to be set up in exactly the same way as your 
primary.
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