Thread watched Exim want to block incoming mail when senders = recipients

djmaarten

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Hi,

Are you also getting these emails from yourself that your devices have been monitored for months and they now want bitcoins? :)) Haha.
They are driving me nuts since I get 20 of them every day in my mailbox.

I think there is a simple rule to implement inside the acl_check_recipients to block this situation on exim:
................
local_parts = ^[.] : ^.*[@%!|]
#added below
deny senders = recipients

message = 555 denied. 5.7.1 BLOCKED_DUE_TO_SPAM_SENDER
#continue exim.conf below

# If you've hit the limit, you can't send anymore. Requires exim.pl 17+
..............................

But somehow this does not work! And I can't figure out why! It never hits this line.

And there is something else strange in the current exim config.

When I am testing this on my machine:

#telnet ipmyserver 25
220 <domain> ESMTP Exim 4.94 Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:59:15 +0200
HELO <somedomain>
250 <domain> Hello <somedomain with ip>
Mail from:<my emailaccount@domain>
250 OK
rcpt to:<my emailaccount@domain>
550 Email blocked by zen.spamhaus.org

??
This is weird since the ip and domain are not listed at spamhaus when checking those.

And, another question, when this situation (senders=recipients) is blocked by the config, how are the bitcoins guys are getting through this filter??

Does anyone know the solution to this puzzle?

Regards
Maarten






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