[Wolves] Blackhole at sorbs filter

Wayne Morris wayne at machx.co.uk
Thu Jan 12 23:05:35 GMT 2006


Adam Sweet wrote:

>--- Wayne Morris <wayne at machx.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Adding sorbs to my exim filter seems to work pretty
>>well apart from 
>>killing the occaisonal good mail.
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>Hi Wayne. I run a server that hosts about 30 domains
>on Exim. I don't know about sorbs particularly and it
>certainly depends on what mail you're getting that you
>want to keep, but I don't get any good mail blocked so
>far as I know.
>
>I use sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, list.dsbl.org and
>bl.spamcop.net.
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Thanks, I've implemented that, but typically haven't had any spam for 10 
mins so don't know whether it works
yet!

Will let you know.

cheers

Wayne



>>Anyone got a nice trick that will just label as
>>'probably spam' so I can 
>>just filter it later (in Thunderbird) and
>>doublecheck.
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>I have concocted the following for you out of my own
>exim.conf and ACLs:
>
>#Insert header if blacklisted
>warn message = X-Blacklisted: DNSBL listed at
>$dnslist_domain\n$dnslist_text                        
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>warn message = X-New-Subject: ***Spam*** $h_subject
>dnslists =
>sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org:list.dsbl.org:bl.spamcop.net
>
>Forgive the line-wrapping in the above.
>
>And then create a .forward file in your exim user's
>home directory.
>
>if "${if def:header_X-New-Subject: {there}}" is there 
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>then                                                  
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>    headers remove Subject                            
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>    headers add "Subject: $h_X-New-Subject:"          
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>    headers remove X-New-Subject                      
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>endif
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>Note that this is a modified version of my own
>settings. The changes are untested. I'm not sure if
>you can have 2 warn messages but I dont see why not.
>You can always take out the first, it's just so you
>can see where it was blacklisted by viewing the
>headers. This info might get logged anyway.
>
>Use at your own discretion. It should work, but if it
>breaks your mail you can keep both pieces :)
>
>Ad
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