Hello Konstantin,
Please look at
https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-access_control_lists.html and look at the description after “
delay = <time>
“
Jan
(Sorry for top posting, editing sucks on cell)
> 9. sep. 2019 kl. 16:37 skrev Konstantin Boyandin via Exim-users <exim-users@???>:
>
> Hello Jan,
>
> "delay" means tarpitting, in this context?
>
> I wonder how efficient that is.
>
> Sincerely,
> Konstantin
>
>> On 09.09.2019 21:16, Jan Ingvoldstad via Exim-users wrote:
>> I've had another variant for years:
>>
>> acl_check_mail:
>> deny
>> message = no HELO given before MAIL command
>> condition = ${if def:sender_helo_name {no}{yes}}
>> delay = 60s
>>
>> The delay is a nice touch, if you have the TCP connections to spare.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:10 PM Phillip Carroll via Exim-users <
>> exim-users@???> wrote:
>>
>>> my configuration has had something similar for years. Is there any
>>> significant difference?
>>>
>>> acl_check_mail:
>>> # deny any mail without helo name
>>> deny message = HELO required before MAIL
>>> condition = ${if eq{$sender_helo_name}{} {1}}
>>>
>>> (Yours obviously simpler to read)
>>>
>>>> On 9/6/2019 6:16 PM, Phil Pennock via Exim-users wrote:
>>>>> On 2019-09-06 at 22:04 +0200, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users wrote:
>>>>> The HELO ACL doesn't help either, as the first EHLO comes before
>>>>> STARTTLS, and the second EHLO doesn't have to come, the client may send
>>>>
>>>> Oh pox. My memory is going. I hadn't realized that my protection
>>>> against this comes from long-standing local configuration, not Exim
>>>> defaulting to enforcing this:
>>>>
>>>> acl_check_mail:
>>>> deny message = 503 Bad sequence of commands - must send
>>> HELO/EHLO first
>>>> condition = ${if !def:sender_helo_name}
>>>>
>>>> If anyone wants to protect against stupidity: I've been using that guard
>>>> for "longer than the five years that the current mail-server is running"
>>>> and I'm not going diving through git history to find when it was
>>>> introduced to my older server.
>>>>
>>>> To the best of my knowledge, that has never blocked legitimate mail.
>>>> Everyone does EHLO after STARTTLS.
>>>>
>>>> Exim drops pre-TLS sender_helo_name after negotiating TLS. This is
>>>> required by RFC 3207 (section 4.2) but not explicitly mentioned in the
>>>> Exim Spec, AFAICT.
>>>>
>>>> -Phil
>
>
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