[OT] Secondary MX

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.4K blaze of typing glory, David A. Bandel wrote:
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> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:47:11 -0400
> Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
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> > > >I wonder if someone out there would be willing to serve as a backup
> > > >MX for kurtwerks.com? I can't offer compensation beyond gratitude, 
> > > >and I would certainly appreciate it.
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> Don't think this will work out.  Your mail server is rejecting mails
> from mine.  I, like _many_ folks, have no control over my reverse.  In
> fact, my upstream has the same problem and MCI/Worldcom here in Panama
> is incompetent, so the problem (I've been fighting it for years now)
> will probably _never_ get fixed (unless I sue MCI for damages).

I've turned that feature off, so mismatches on reverse lookups should
work. For the record, I was using Postfix's smtpd_sender_restrictions:

smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access,reject_unknown_sender_domain

I've modified it to:

smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access

So reverse mismatches should work. Amavis should still catch most of
the spam.

> > Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad
> > example.
> > 	-- La Rouchefoucauld
> 
> Was La Rouchefoucauld over 100 when he said something so silly?  If I'm
> ever too old to be a bad example, then I'm too old to be alive.

Indeed. Perhaps La Rouchefoucauld was thinking of the enfeeblement that
typically accompanies old age, rather than old age itself.

Kurt
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