Is my SpamBlocker working?

Jensemann

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I've just upgraded to SB 3. But I still get 3-5 spam mails every hour. The same as earlier. Is it working, or is it normal that this amount of spam will pass through the filters? I've remembered to download exim.pl as well.

My main concern is that the dns lists are not configured correctly. Included is my pretty plain exim.conf file.
 

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Jensemann,

SpamBlocker3 may or may not catch more spam than older versions. On one of my servers (I just checked) it found and rejected 214,063 emails during the seven days ending at 4 AM on December 30th. During that week we got no notifications of false positives.

Jeff
 
Have you enabled RBLs on your server?

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=142

Of course... I haven't done that. And my partner that set up the server in the first place never did that either. No wonder that spam kept rolling in.

I've checked the exim logs, and it blocks a lot of spam already.

Thanks.

Jeff:
It seems to work perfect then.

Thanks for a great script/config file!
 
Hy

I try To enable RBL blocking:

Login as root, run the following:

cd /etc/virtual
rm -f use_rbl_domains
ln -s domains use_rbl_domains

Ok now i have an error when im sending mail to yahoo , the error is :

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
host a.mx.mail.yahoo.com [209.191.118.103]: 553 Mail from MY-IP-ADDRESS-FROM-SERVER not
allowed - 5.7.1 [21] Connections not accepted from IP addresses on Spamhaus PBL;
see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/550571-2.html [550]

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------.

Then, i try do disable the RBLs` just like that:

cd /etc/virtual
rm -f use_rbl_domains
touch use_rbl_domains

i restart exim, but when im sending an email to yahoo, i have same error:

k now i have an error when im sending mail to yahoo , the error is :

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
host a.mx.mail.yahoo.com [209.191.118.103]: 553 Mail from MY-IP-ADDRESS-FROM-SERVER not
allowed - 5.7.1 [21] Connections not accepted from IP addresses on Spamhaus PBL;
see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/550571-2.html [550]

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------.

Do you have any sugestion for me? :)

Tnx.

Eduard.
 
Hy and TNX,

I try this, the funy think is this :

MY-SERVER-IP is not listed in the SBL

MY-SERVER-IP is not listed in the PBL

MY-SERVER-IP is not listed in the XBL

:) any sugestion?

Eduard.
 
If your server IP isn't listed but Yahoo tells you it is, you'll have to take the issue up with the Yahoo postmaster.

Jeff
 
hi i also have problem with this, when enablein RBL message rejected

here is log

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

[email protected]

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 Email blocked by BSHL - to unblock see http://www.example.com/ (state 14).

----- Original message -----

Received: by 10.204.5.75 with SMTP id 11mr503362bku.20.1263480859700;
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:54:19 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ([125.164.3.89])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm363660bwz.11.2010.01.14.06.54.14
(version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:54:16 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:54:10 +0700
From: Hadi Suwantoro <[email protected]>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [email protected]
Subject: tes
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

tess
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hi sory, fixed now. but i don't know what exactly the problem

it seem i have install MailScanner and i have disable then everything going ok.
 
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