Setting up a Backup Mail Server

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Tue Apr 19 17:20:13 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 13:11 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

> Could you elaborate more how the backup mx could be any more of a "spam 
> magnet" then the main MX ? I am interested to learn.
> 
Spammers target backup mx on the premise that it usually lacks the
filtering of primary mx. 

Jim Seymour explains it better that I could at
http://jimsun.linxnet.com/misc/postfix-anti-UCE.txt

It's about two-thirds of the way down the page titled "When There's No
Point To A Secondary MX."
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