[Pkg-exim4-users] blacklisting not working despite following debian documentation

[Jeremiah Foster]

Thanks very much Marc.

On 9/13/06, Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-users at zugschlus.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:17:21PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> > I am trying to stop a domain name [rima-tde.net] from sending spam to my
> > server. I am using the document /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/default-acl
> to
> > set up my exim4.conf.template. It says;
> >
> > /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist contains a list of IP addresses,
> > networks and host names whose messages will be denied with the error
> > message "locally blacklisted". This is a full exim 4 host list. Again,
> > negative items can be used here, and there is also an explicit
> > whitelist read in from /etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist, and whitelist
> > entries override blacklistings.
> >
> > So my /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist looks like this:
> >
> > rima-tde.net
> > 80.25.220.24
>
> This blacklists the host rima-tde.net. 80.25.220.24 resolves to
> 24.red-80-25-220.staticip.rima-tde.net, which is no exact match.
>
> If you want to blacklist everything that ends in .rima-tde.net, use
> *.rima-tde.net in the host list.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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