[Mimedefang] OT: Blocking because of MX to 127.0.0.1

[John]

At 09:19 AM 3/9/2004, you wrote:
<snip>
>>I can't email anyone at SBC as the mail bounces back because my lowest
>>pref MX record points to localhost.
>>
>>Has anyone else seen ISP's who block because of this?
>>
>>Are they being stupid or am I?
>>
>>   -Ben
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>We've received spam from domains that mx to 127.0.0.1 and if I see
>much more of it, I'd like to do just what that ISP is doing, to get
>the clutter out of our mail queues.

Not only that, when they do get queued, they give "Mail loops back to me" 
config errors!  What a pisser!!!


>Joseph Brennan
>Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)
>Columbia University in the City of New York
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