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[Aushosts]

Does anyone know know to block receiving email from a certin domain or IP in Exim server wide??

[serial]

One directive comes to mind:

deny message =

[sethgarnar]

Would adding thge IP in hosts.deny do it?

[sprintserve]

No. hosts.deny is specifically meant for programs running in the xinetd wrapper. Exim runs standalone and independently from xinetd.

[Aushosts]

Originally posted by serial
One directive comes to mind:

deny message =

Would you be able to give a little more explanation? Thanks mate