[wellylug] Calling all Exim gurus

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Sat Mar 26 11:22:10 NZST 2005


Darryl Hamilton wrote:
> Ok, I'm a bit stuck with this one. Got an eBay scammer using a server to 
> send out the usual crap, and it's breaking stuff trying to comply.
> 
> So, for two reasons, I want to tell Exim to block the sending of those 
> emails, but I don't know how, having not used Exim all that much.
> 
> Some criteria -
> 1) the mail is coming from the server itself, I'm guessing a jailshell 
> but it could be a phpBB exploit or other web form based thing
> 2) So far, 3 email addresses are being used - awconfirm at ebay.com, 
> service at ebay.com and awconfirm at ebay.com.us, so I want to block those 
> three, plus any others that pop up later on.
> 
> I'm thinking (hoping) this can be done with an ACL (or a mod to an 
> existing one), and this is what I'm asking. So far, I have the following 
> in acl_smtp_rcpt, which doesn't seem to be working
> 
>   deny  hosts = +local_domains
>         domains = ebay.com:ebay.com.us:paypal.com
> 
> 
> If you have any ideas or examples I can look at, please let me know. 
> Also, if you have any ideas on how to find out where this shit is coming 
> from, that would be very handy to know.
> 
Have you considered using a system filter? It might be easier.

Cheers,

Cliff




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