Re: [exim] [NEWBIE]Stop Spammers - How - Confused

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: exim, exim-users@exim.org
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Subject: Re: [exim] [NEWBIE]Stop Spammers - How - Confused
At 3:41 pm -0500 2004/09/20, exim@??? wrote:
>Hi.
>
>It appears that spammers are routinely using my Exim driven box to send their
>spam... My users are either on broadband (cable modem, DSL), or dial up
>connections. Assuming I want to route messages from *.accept-domain1.com and
>*.accept-domain2.com, which of these options will work (for long version of
>background story see below):
>
>relay_domains = *.accept-domain1.com : *.accept-domain2.com


NO!

>or should I use this instead:
>
>host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : ::::1 : *.accept-domain1.com :
>*.accept-domain2.com
>(the above should have been a single line.)


if you know the networks better put in ip addresses/netmasks,
otherwise domain names should be fine (but will only work if DNS is
properly configured).


Giuliano