Exim and RBLs

[paul-w]

Hi

One of my users is sending via my server using an IP address that is in bl.spamcop.net - not his fault, he's using a Vodafone card to send and presumably has a dynamic address.

Anyhow, he says he is getting this error message back from my server. He's using Outlook, so this is Outlook's error message:

The server responded: 553 Your IP address 212.183.134.65
is blackholed by bl.spamcop.net.

The problem is, I can't find this precise error message in exim.conf or /usr/local/exim/configure. The config file for exim begins:

SpamBlocker.exim.conf.2.0-release

and has the lines:

# deny using spamcop
deny message = Email blocked by SPAMCOP - to unblock see http://www.example.com/
hosts = !+relay_hosts
domains = +use_rbl_domains
!authenticated = *
dnslists = bl.spamcop.net

This doesn't seem to tie up with the message he got.

To be honest, I'm not particularly keen on using RBL filtering like this; most spammers will send via my secondary MX.

Can someone just confirm that exim.conf is where I should be looking?

 

[nobaloney]

exim.conf is where you should be looking. With the default exim.conf file, exim will NOT send the message you're seeing.

You don't have to use blocklists if you don't want to; blocklists only work for domains in the /etc/virtual/use_rbl_domains file.

Jeff

 

[paul-w]

So Jeff, did you write the exim.conf that I have on my server? It's just that it says in exim.conf:

This is version "2.0 of the SpamBlocker exim.conf file as distributed by NoBaloney Internet Services for DirectAdmin based servers.

You don't have to use blocklists if you don't want to; blocklists only work for domains in the /etc/virtual/use_rbl_domains file.

My /etc/virtual/use_rbl_domains file is empty. Can you just confirm that no checking against RBLs is being done on receipt of mail from any server to any address?