From: Alex van den Bogaerdt (alexergens.op.het.net)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 05:21:51 CDT

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:51:18PM -0600, Clinton Work wrote:

> My mail server (mail.scripty.com) is the backup MX for cuug.ab.ca. I find
> that a lot of spammers use the backup MX for sending spam and I want to
> defer relaying mail for cuug.ab.ca while the primary MX is reachable.

Reachable by you, or reachable by the one trying to contact it?

If there's no connection between ${remote} and ${primaryMX}, it
is OK for ${remote} to contact ${backupMX}. If _you_ can contact
${primaryMX} this doesn't mean ${remote} can do so as well.

cheers,
Alex
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