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[Spamassassin Wiki] Trivial Update of "OtherTricks" by SeanCardus

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  == Fake MX Records ==
  
- Fake MX records can work like greylisting and often much faster. It doesn't require the installation of new software. What you do is add a fake highest and lowest MX record. Normal email will retry but spammers often don't. This is especially true of virus infected windows zombie spam. Here's an example MX configuration.
+ Fake MX records can work like greylisting and often much faster. It doesn't require the installation of new software. What you do is add a fake highest and lowest MX record. Normal email will probably retry but spammers often don't. This is especially true of virus infected windows zombie spam. Here's an example MX configuration.
  {{{
   fake0.domain.com   10
   realmx.domain.com  20