I have a dial-up account with my IP (dynamic IP address) and I download mail with fetchmail. The mail gets passed on to exim for local delivery, using .forward to enable filtering. I have a stand-alone machine running Potato. I have upgraded Potato only yesterday so all packages are the latest.
I get a few spam emails every day and had a look at www.exim.org to see if I could do anything about it. The advice was a little confusing, but I ended up with the following lines in my /etc/exim.conf: host_lookup = 0.0.0.0/0 rbl_domains = rbl.maps.vix.com/reject : relays.orbs.org/warn #rbl_reject_recipients = false #rbl_warn_header = true rbl_log_headers rbl_log_rcpt_count # The setting below locks out the use of your host as a mail relay by any # other host. See the section of the manual entitled "Control of relaying" # for more info. host_accept_relay = "! * : \ *" I am not sure what this is supposed to do - no mention of the above appears in /var/log/exim/mainlog - I imagined that at the very least something would appear to warn me that the sender of a spam email is in the orbs database. Can anyone help me out here? Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000