From: Richard B. 

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:48:22 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>oh come on, it takes all of 5 minutes.. 

I'm doing some other things as well with my filtering server.  Moving to
new hardware and other software upgrades.

>Ok then you realize no mail is flowing because you have to turn all the
filters
>off on the mail server at least for the barracuda's IP, and you have to reject
>unknown user email at the server so the barracuda knows what is valid and what
>isn't, then since you just turned the filters all off for everywhere instead
of
>just for the barracuda you find out the spammers cache dns for 4 days and so
>tons of spam get thru since it's sent right to the now unfiltered mail server
>instead of the barracuda... 

Yeah, that sort of thing concerns me.   Actually it sounds like my
mail server should be in pretty good shape to work with the fish.  I just
do everything possible not to hear luser whine, especially my own
propensity for it.

- Richard

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