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Put the domains to be blocked in the exim.blockedsenders file. This will block mail from mail clients which ignore the refusal from Exim at the MAIL FROM: stage of the SMTP protocol, but will block them at the RCPT TO: stage.

John

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0 Jesse G. over 22 years ago

I have done what you recommend but spammers still get through. Whay is that? I have entered all of their domain names in exim.blocksenders and also have the sender_reject = /etc/exim.blocked set up in my conf file and that file also contains the list of domains to block. But spammers still get through.
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0 goldfly over 22 years ago in reply to Jesse G.

Are you blocking just the second level? ie CHEESE.COM as opposed to SPAM.CHEESE.COM?

I'm having the same trouble and I'm wondering if there is a wildcard that should go in front of these?
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0 Jesse G. over 22 years ago in reply to goldfly

Yes, that's exectly what I'm doing.
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0 Jesse G. over 22 years ago in reply to goldfly

Yes, that's exectly what I'm doing.
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0 goldfly over 22 years ago in reply to Jesse G.

OK!  I got this to work!

The wildcard is....... *

Go figure.  So *.cheese.com will block:

spam1.cheese.com
spam2.cheese.com
spam3.cheese.com

BUT NOT

cheese.com

so you should probably use both.

Now I recommend *.cheese.com
(careful to use  ^ the dot)
and NOT *cheese.com
because you may want to block
sex.com and not
deusex.com.

Got it?
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