On Fri 31 Mar 2000, Jose Marin wrote: > > I was wondering if eximconfig is doing the right thing for this option. I > have machines which are connected on a network, and I want to have a MTA > but only for the benefit of apps like cron or debconf which need to send > local mail. > > I expected that Option 4 of eximconfig (Local delivery only) would block > any TCP/IP conections to exim, but it doesn't; I'm still able to send > e-mail from a different machine successfully. Shouldn't eximconfig warn > about this? Or am I missing something? (very likely) > > Anyway, what's the best way to achieve what I want? Run exim from inetd > via tcp wrappers and protect it in hosts.deny? Run exim as a daemon and > give it an option to not listen to port 25, or not use SMTP transport at > all? All I want is local mail.
IMHO configure it to not use SMTP at all, that should be the default (again, IMHO) if you choose option 4. I don't think that any daemons etc. try to deliver to a local user via SMTP. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/
