Re: [exim] Reject email from a IP or IP range

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Author: Alan J. Flavell
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To: Exim users list
Subject: Re: [exim] Reject email from a IP or IP range
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, John W. Baxter wrote:

> Are you running Exim through [x]inetd? If not...nothing is looking
> at hosts.allow.


Hang on a minute:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/FAQ_7.html#TOC235

exim *can* use libwrap, and libwrap will get its configuration data
from hosts.allow. If you like that sort of thing.

However, exim also has its own options to deny accepting smtp calls,
and those are what we're using on our own system nowadays.