X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim-website.git/blobdiff_plain/4441f3467c4aa8b521852269220805ba411c25ac..cad98b98badf9e9b061c07f42e0915b401faf9e0:/howto/rbl.html diff --git a/howto/rbl.html b/howto/rbl.html index 0344b12..e35327a 100644 --- a/howto/rbl.html +++ b/howto/rbl.html @@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ services although with different aims, procedures and reliabilities have been introduced - MAPS itself has a number of these (ie MAPS/DUL which maintains lists of dial up modems), the - other major source is ORBS, - which is a more proactive relay blocking service

+ other major source was ORBS, + which is a more proactive relay blocking service, however this has + recently closed down. For this reason the examples now use RSS + from mail-abuse.org in place of ORBS

Exim can use the MAPS RBL and/or any other similarly defined service (ie you could make your own additional maps as well). To @@ -56,7 +58,7 @@

A typical configuration would be a mail system which rejects mail from machines that appear within either the MAPS RBL list or - the MAPS DUL (Dial-Up List), and also checks hosts in the ORBS + the MAPS DUL (Dial-Up List), and also checks hosts in the RSS lists but only marking each message has coming via an RBLed host rather than rejecting them. Additionally all mail to the local postmaster always gets through, even if the host is in the MAPS @@ -69,12 +71,11 @@ configuration file) to do this is:-

-# reject messages whose sending host is in MAPS/RBL
-# add warning to messages whose sending host is in ORBS
+# reject messages whose sending host is in MAPS/RBL & MAP/DUL
+# add warning to messages whose sending host is in RSS
 rbl_domains = blackholes.mail-abuse.org/reject : \
         dialups.mail-abuse.org/reject : \
-        relays.mail-abuse.org/reject : \
-        relays.orbs.org/warn
+        relays.mail-abuse.org/warn 
 # check all hosts other than those on internal network
 rbl_hosts = !192.168.0.0/24:0.0.0.0/0
 # but allow mail to postmaster@my.dom.ain even from rejected host
@@ -90,6 +91,6 @@ rbl_log_rcpt_count	# log recipient info of accepted RBLed messages
     
Nigel Metheringham
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