Re: list of blocked IP addresses in a file?

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Author: Alan Thew
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Subject: Re: list of blocked IP addresses in a file?
Thanks to Chris Thompson and Adrian Bool for their very prompt answers,
this will be fine and makes things very flexible.

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Alan Thew                                       alan.thew@???
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Chris Thompson wrote:

> Alan Thew writes:
> >
> > Can this be done? The docs for 1.73 seem to indicate that it cannot. These
> > are all to be blocked for anti spam reasons but most have no PTR record
> > and while I could use a file of networks, this seems right now a little
> > OTT (although a nicely comented file would be great...).
>
> Yes, it can: use the facility to include an external file in a net-list,
> such as sender_net_reject_recipients. There is nothing to stop you specifying
> a mask of /32 so that the "network" covers only a single host. E.g.
>
> sender_net_reject_recipients = /etc/exim/lists/blocked-networks
>
> with the latter file containing
>
>   123.123.123.123/32   # block one host
>   131.111.0.0/16       # not to mention all mail from Cambridge...

>
> Chris Thompson               Cambridge University Computing Service,
> Email: cet1@???    New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
> Phone: +44 1223 334715       United Kingdom.

>



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