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Author: Bill Hayles
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To: exim-users
Old-Topics: Re: [exim] exim subjecting outbound e-mail to spamd and viruschecks
Subject: Re: [exim] exim subjecting outbound e-mail to spamd and virus
Hi, Dominic and The Doctor

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:23:43 +0100 in message number <4E424E1F.6060608@???>, received here on 10/08/2011 11:47:16, Dominic Benson <dominic@???> said:

The Doctor wrote

> someone hijecked www to senjd thousands of spam and exim did not drop it


Perhaps The Doctor could expand on that. If he means that thousands of
spam were sent via his webmail program, then the normal condition is for
them to be accepted unconditionally as webmail users are assumed
legitimate, having had to log on.

If that is the case, then it is the webmail configuration that needs
looking at, and not Exim.

> Depending on how the mail was initiated, it could be
>
> accept hosts = :


But that is normally safe (I certainly have it) as you assume anything
not sent by TCP/IP, i.e. originating from 127.0.0.1 is legitimate.

If it isn't, then again, trying to configure Exim to fix the problem
isn't, IMHO, the right way to go about it.

--
This is Spain. We do things differently here!

Bill Hayles
billnot@???