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Re: virus mail ignores MX?
From: Andrej Kacian <andrej () kacian sk>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 03:47:14 +0200
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:41:12 +0000 "Monty Ree" <chulmin2 () hotmail com> wrote:
so I think some virus mail ignores MX, right? What's the problem and how can I solve this problem?
The problem, as I see it, is that, as you stated, some email worms ignore MX records, or try to use all MX records they can find. You can solve this problem by not expecting email worms to use primary MX server. I suggest anti-virus scanning on both mailservers. -- /~\ The ASCII Andrej "Ticho" Kacian <andrej at kacian dot sk> \ / Ribbon Campaign GnuPG public key ID: 7CD93FE2 (pgp.mit.edu) X Against HTML Key fingerprint: / \ Email! E87D 9DEF 2A23 6FFB 7AD9 542F 4253 3A46 7CD9 3FE2
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- virus mail ignores MX? Monty Ree (Jun 13)
- Re: virus mail ignores MX? Andrej Kacian (Jun 14)
- Re: virus mail ignores MX? Paul Kurczaba (Jun 14)
- Re: virus mail ignores MX? die tuere (Jun 14)
- Re: virus mail ignores MX? Pierre-Yves Bonnetain (Jun 14)
- RE: virus mail ignores MX? Burton M. Strauss III (Jun 14)
- Re: virus mail ignores MX? Ranjeet Shetye (Jun 21)
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- RE: virus mail ignores MX? Joshua Vince (Jun 14)
- RE: virus mail ignores MX? Alan Greig (Jun 14)
- Re: virus mail ignores MX? Monty Ree (Jun 16)
- Re: virus mail ignores MX? Mircea MITU (Jun 18)
- RE: virus mail ignores MX? Keith T. Morgan (Jun 22)