On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 18:59, Richard Jones via Exim-users < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 02, Richard Jones via Exim-users wrote > > I've had much more success with other techniques, greylisting, > > zen.spamhaus.org, delayed HELO, and fail2ban. > > > > Very little then gets through the spamassassin, and it deals with the > > rest. > > Here are some metrics for you, logs run from the start of the year: > > # Number of successful connections > grep "H=" /var/log/exim4/mainlog | wc -l > 26046 > > # Spam messages as scored over 2.0 by SA > grep "Spam message" /var/log/exim4/mainlog | wc -l > 38 > > # Messages blocked by Spamhaus > grep "zen.spamhaus.org" /var/log/exim4/mainlog | wc -l > 710 > > Connection attempts blocked by Fail2Ban > IMAP: 52361 > Exim: 24395 > Exim+: 7545 > > The last one is my own exim rules and catches honey-pot addresses, > previous spam hosts, previous spamhaus catches, and SPF hard fails. > It's purpose is mostly to keep my logs cleaner. > > Thanks, > > R > > Hi Richard, Would you be willing to share your fail2ban config bits? I have never used fail2ban, so would like to install and try, starting from a vantage point. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-) -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
