[exim] Re: Tackling Bot Blasts

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Author: Ian Z via Exim-users
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Subject: [exim] Re: Tackling Bot Blasts
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 10:01:56AM +0100, Pete Long via Exim-users wrote:

> After trying several ACLs and even inviting IPTables to the party at
> one stage, I still seemed powerless to prevent mainlog filling up
> with an inordinate amount of crap; that is until this morning.


Once I tried iptables together with the drop and edrop lists from
spamhaus. But I think all those are already dropped by my upstream
router anyway.

Re log noise:

- log_reject_target can be your friend

- some logs are just wrongly going to main IMO, I have patch(es) to
change that

--
Ian

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