[ale] Fwd: Fake MX Record(s) Trick

[Marc Ferguson]

I thought I'd forward this to my LUG. You guys rock with answers.  I
haven't heard anything from the spam assassin list.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:38:02 -0400
Subject: Fake MX Record(s) Trick
To: "Spam Assassin (Users Mailing List)" <users at spamassassin.apache.org>

Hi,

I'm a linux noob and a spam assassin noob so please reply in simplified
language.  Thanks.

I saw on the wiki a trick to use fake mx records in order to weed out spam (
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/OtherTricks).  I'm using Evolution at
home and on my laptop and I have the spamassassin plugin so I'm constantly
clicking the "junk" icon.  I have access to my shared web hosting account
and I sure do get TONS of spam.  I'm a bit confused as to how to implement
it though.  My web host uses WHM so my form looks something like this:

digitalalias.net  14400  IN  MX  0  digitalalias.net

What is 14400, I'm guessing a port of some kind.  Besides that the wiki
suggests that my first fake mx record should be set at 10, then my real mx
record at 20, and then another fake one at 30.  Why is this since my current
mx record is set to 0?

fake0.example.com 10
realmx.example.com 20
fake1.example.com 30


Marc F.

"..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come.."
-Rev1:4

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Marc F.

"..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to
come.." -Rev1:4