On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Dean Hamstead wrote: > From: Dean Hamstead <[email protected]> > To: exim users <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 03:17:24 > Subject: [exim] Iptables/other blocking ylmf-pc clients > > Its easy enough to add a rule to the exim config to always reject > connections which HELO ylmf-pc. However they still seem to hammer > away. > > Has anyone come up with anything slick to block the ip address of > clients that make a ylmf-pc request? > > Log tailing would be ok, but it seems that an external program > could fairly easily be called (denyhosts or similar)
As noted, fail2ban would do the job. This topic comes up on a regular basis. Rude clients are capable of a number of repeated transgressions! See the discussion on this topic from earlier this year. It's a different transgression, but the remedy is similar. The discussion starts here: https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20160429.223806.7f89ca58.en.html -- Dennis Davis <[email protected]> -- ## 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/
