Re: [Exim] Yahoo Groups misconfigured?

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote:

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

I'm assuming that's a confirmation of my assumption that it was in the
"RCPT TO" ACL... your log seems to confirm it, anyhow.

> This is all that appears in the log. No message id to look at.

That's right. I guess I didn't express myself very clearly: in order
to get the message-id you would have to let things proceed to at least
the DATA stage. You might consider trying that as a temporary measure
if you were trying to diagnose a problem such as we're discussing
here.

Rejecting at the RCPT TO stage does, in my experience, seem to give a
better prospect (speaking generally, and no particular reference to
yahoo) of successfully convincing sending MTAs that it's all over.
Although, to be honest, I think it's been a while now since I've seen
an MTA which reacted to an end of DATA 5xx from us as a retryable
error, but it used to be a not uncommon reaction, sufficient for us to
want to take measures to deal with it.

> 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.

This seems to have been already processed once on your node? In our
log I'd expect to see something like (anonymized for obvious reasons):

2003-02-16 08:36:50 H=(POSTE12) [ ip snipped ] F=<big@???>
rejected RCPT <ouruser@???>: This sender or domain is
locally blacklisted.

cheers