Re: [Exim] Re: RBL Domains

I thought this might be the case, so I was trying to think of an alternative.
I may have one. It doesn't sound pretty to me, but I wanted to see if anyone
else thought there was anything *really* horrible about it.

I was thinking that I could run two instances of exim on separate ports.
The standard port 25 would not use SMTP Auth and would only accept mail for
local delivery, using RBL.
The other port (maybe 2525 or 26) would only accept SMTP Auth connections and
would not check RBL.

The disadvantage I see to this is that I would have to make sure my users have
mail clients that support non-standard ports and that they would know how to
use them.
An advantage I see is that it would be very easy for me to have separate logs
for user generated vs. outside mail which could make it a lot easier when
hunting through the logs for information such as spam fingerprints..

What do y'all think of this?
-- Daniel Einspanjer, daniel-ml@??? on 07/19/2001


On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:00:59 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Daniel Einspanjer wrote:
>
>> If you are using SMTP Auth to allow relaying from your users when
>>they are outside of your net, do you think it would still be
>>possible to exclude them from the RBL lookup? That would save a
>>lot of queries on my mail server since most of my traffic is
>>outgoing.
>
>This will be possible in Exim 4. It is not possible in Exim 3.
>