Re: [Exim] Whitelisting RBL positives

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Author: Jerry Jorgenson
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Whitelisting RBL positives
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:45:48 -0700
"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@???> wrote:

> No, that's still not right. You're providing the contents of your
> "allow_access_list" as a list of DNSBLs to check, and then inverting
> the results of thoses tests (which will always fail because they're
> not actually DNSBLs).
>
> What you need is:
>
> deny ! hosts     = /etc/mail/allow_access_list
>       dnslists    = relays.ordb.org ...
>       message     = rejected because $sender_host_address ...
>       log_message = found in RBL $dnslist_domain

>
> This does the following:
>
> 1) If the sending host is in your allow_access_list, stop processing
> this ACL rule and go on to the next one.
>
> 2) Check the sending host's IP address against your chosen list of
> DNSBLs.
>
> 3) Set the message and log_message if the IP address was found in a
> DNSBL.


Kevin,

You are correct, thanks. I did discover this a short time before I read
your post. It was even in the Exim4 book--but kind of hidden (I found it
on maybe the tenth time reading the RBL section).

Thanks again,

Jerry

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