Re: [Exim] Yahoo Groups misconfigured?

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Author: Rossz Vamos-Wentworth
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To: Alan J. Flavell, Exim users list
Subject: Re: [Exim] Yahoo Groups misconfigured?
> > Over the course
> > of the night there were approximately 150 blocked attempts to
> > deliver mail list posts by this blacklisted person. I can't believe
> > he stayed up all night posting, so I am guessing that yahoogroups is
> > not properly handling 550 codes and just keeps attempting to send
> > the same few messages.
>
> That would seem pretty dumb. You _are_ doing this in the RCPT TO ACL,
> aren't you? Then a 5xx at that point might be indicative of
> non-existent user etc. etc. and in my experience is the most
> efficacious place to reject - what actually appears in your rejection
> log for these incidents?


My blacklist filter is in the ACL section, just after my dns blocklists
(rbl stuff).

This is all that appears in the log. No message id to look at. Why
is that? I did expect a bit more in the logs.

Feb 14 14:01:19 vife exim[16517]: 2003-02-14 14:01:19
H=localhost [127.0.0.1] U=root
F=<disc_lists@???> rejected RCPT <ildiko@localhost>:
The sender (disc_lists@???) has been blacklisted.

Rossz