Re: Dummy backup MX -- PCTECH

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Subject: Re: Dummy backup MX
From: Scott Klement <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 15:56:02 -0500
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I'm not sure that I understand. What's the purpose of ALWAYS returning a soft-error? What will you accomplish by that?

David Gibbs wrote:

smtptrapd is a very small C program that listens on port 25 and always returns a 4xx soft error to the RCPT TO verb.

I setup the backup MX record in DNS about 2 hours ago ... and already I'm getting hit on it. So far I haven't seen a single legit email show up on it.

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