Re: [vps-mail] Question about Sendmail/Spammers

[Scott Girard <sgirard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Abigail:

I saw Ghislain's response, but a spammer can send email directly to 
your IP address also.

You can try this yourself by using a web mail client to send a message 
to your VPS's IP address like this:

sales@[your.ipaddress.here]

The [your.ipaddress.here] is called a domain literal.  Don't forget the 
[ ] ; those are required.

For some reason, the domain literal method doesn't work when using a 
regular mail client like Apple Mail or Outlook; but I have had it work 
using a web mail client like iManager or the Signature web mail client.

Scott

On Apr 4, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Abigail Marshall wrote:

> So my question is - technically speaking - is there a way
> that spammers get around or avoid mx records, connecting
> directly with the server on the basis of host name?  I
> basically want to know how this mail is getting to the
> mydomain.com server in the first place. (Of course, it's
> fine with me if all the spam mail bounces, but I'm still
> curious, in part because I'm wondering if there is any way
> legit mail could also end up coming to the mydomain.com
> server - rather than being routed by MX records to
> mail.mydomain.com. (NOTE: there is only ONE MX record
> specified for this domain)
>
> -Abigail
>
>
>
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