Re: [Exim] "deny hosts" in ACLs

> Hi all. I'm having trouble setting up an ACL condition that denies
> hosts whose IP address is listed in a DBM file.
>
> The ACL contains:
> deny hosts = dbm;/usr/local/exim/etc/ipbl.db
>
> ipbl.db is a dbm file created by exim_dbmbuild from a text file
> containing 1 IP address per line. This ACL fails to work, however. It
> wants hostnames, not IP addresses. But I don't want to block hostnames,
> I want to block IP addresses.

Read the lookup section of the spec a little more.

you need net-dbm

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