Blocking an email address or ip

[petfut]

How can I block an IP or email address, that I could stop it sending emails to my server.
Currently I am getting thousands of messages per hour from a single address.

Messages are sent to my root-email.

[chirpy]

You could add the following ACL into WHM > Exim Configuration Editor > Advanced Mode > scroll to the first set of 3 textboxes, in the middle of the 3 boxes add the following with clear lines above and below it after:

accept hosts = :

add:

  drop senders = annoying@domain.com
         message = Spam or Mail Bombing activity

Replacing annoying@domain.com with the source email address.

[petfut]

You could add the following ACL into WHM > Exim Configuration Editor > Advanced Mode > scroll to the first set of 3 textboxes, in the middle of the 3 boxes add the following with clear lines above and below it after:

accept hosts = :

add:

  drop senders = annoying@domain.com
         message = Spam or Mail Bombing activity

Replacing annoying@domain.com with the source email address.

I tried that, typed the texts to second box. It didn't work out really well, I got an error message:

2005-03-29 13:49:11 Exim configuration error in line 231 of /etc/exim.conf.buildtest:
missing ACL name
Exim version 4.50 #1 built 14-Mar-2005 10:32:24
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (October 24, 2003)
Support for: iconv() PAM Perl OpenSSL Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch dbm dbmnz
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile autoreply pipe smtp
Configuration file has an invalid syntax. Please try again.

[chirpy]

I'll contact you off-board to help out.

[webignition]

I'd like to know how the resolution of this issue goes as it would be good to know how to do this. Any updates would be much appreciated!

[chirpy]

The problem had resolved itself by the time I got ot it My suggestion, if implemented as stated, will work. It's possible the OP had a typo or mis-placed it