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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by martin f krafft <ma...@madduck.net> on 2007/08/27 12:19:49 UTC

Re: Posioned MX is a bad idea [Was: Email forwarding and RBL trouble]

also sprach mouss <mo...@netoyen.net> [2007.08.26.1930 +0200]:
> Indeed. reject != score. Moreover, I wouldn't put
> - MX => private IP
> - MX = "*.mx.*"

Why *.mx.*?

I happen to run all my MX as ?.mx.$my_domain and there is no reason
why this should be indicative of anything.

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Re: Posioned MX is a bad idea [Was: Email forwarding and RBL trouble]

Posted by Dave Mifsud <da...@um.edu.mt>.
On 27/08/07 12:19, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach mouss <mo...@netoyen.net> [2007.08.26.1930 +0200]:
>> Indeed. reject != score. Moreover, I wouldn't put
>> - MX => private IP
>> - MX = "*.mx.*"
> 
> Why *.mx.*?
> 
> I happen to run all my MX as ?.mx.$my_domain and there is no reason
> why this should be indicative of anything.
> 

he literally means *.mx.*, not something.mx.something:

> dig yheweathernetwork.com mx

;; ANSWER SECTION:
yheweathernetwork.com.  9807    IN      MX      0 *.mx.*.

dave
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