Marvin Activation Instructions       Print

Thank you for choosing Marvin as the anti-spam solution for your business. As you know, spam can't be stopped with one tool. Spammers use forged headers, fake identities, and polymorphic messages to evade detection. For this reason, Sihope has developed Marvin, a solution like no other. Marvin is a highly configurable content filtering and anti-spam solution that employs a number of different and unique anti-spam techniques to detect and control spam. As spam changes, new tools can be added to stay ahead of the spammers. With it's per-user and per-domain configuration options, Marvin can be hand tailored to the way your business uses e-mail.

Please follow the instructions below to implement Marvin:

The MX records for your domain need to have the following added before the current MX records in the order listed below beginning with the lowest number (highest preference):

IN MX ?? yourdomainname.tld.mx.marvin.sihope.com.
IN MX ?? queue.mx.marvin.sihope.com.
IN MX ?? marvin.sihope.com.

Examples of what the records should look like when completed:

If your domain name is krispiebar.com and the current MX record is:

IN MX 10 mail.krispiebar.com.

The new MX records should look like this:

IN MX 4 krispiebar.com.mx.marvin.sihope.com.
IN MX 6 queue.mx.marvin.sihope.com.
IN MX 8 marvin.sihope.com.
IN MX 10 mail.krispiebar.com.

If your domain name is campsiteblues.org, and the current MX records are:

IN MX 50 mail.campsiteblues.org.
IN MX 100 backupmail.campsiteblues.org.

The new MX records should look like this:

IN MX 10 campsiteblues.org.mx.marvin.sihope.com.
IN MX 20 queue.mx.marvin.sihope.com.
IN MX 30 marvin.sihope.com.
IN MX 50 mail.campsiteblues.org.
IN MX 100 backupmail.campsiteblues.org.

You must contact Sihope if your mail server IP ever changes.