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Re: Backscatter problem with relay host

From: Arno Hollosi (ahollosixmp.net)
Date: Sun Jan 27 2008 - 13:48:14 CST


Rod Dorman wrote:
>> RELAY and TARGET are unable to enforce the same spam policies.
> Why is this?

One of the reasons is that both use statistical filters which directly
feed their local spam & ham databases. As the MXs do not see the same
emails the databases (e.g. auto-white&black-lists) are not identical and
therefore some emails may pass one MX but get rejected on the other.

/Arno