First of all, thank you to everyone who sent help. I now only have (I hope)
2 problems.
I was wrong about using cron to start Exim daemon, the 2 ways that were
suggested to me were using init and using inetd.
Problem #1:
I found that using init overrides my security from hosts.deny and
hosts.allow, since these are used by inetd. The answer is to use Inetd to
call Exim on demand. After looking in my Inetd.conf file, I found the
following line commented out in the bottom of the file:
#smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.smtpd (will be restored by smail postinstall)
I looked into it, there is no file /usr/sbin/in.smtpd ,after looking at
the man page for smail, I saw that smail -bs = in.smtpd ,so I figure
in.smtp was removed with smail. I looked in the Exim man page and found
that Exim -bs should work just like smail -bs, so I went up to the section
headed by the comment: #:Mail:
and entered the line:
smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim -bs
no good, I try telnet 127.0.0.1 25, get connection terminated
I remember this problem with smail by adding in hosts.allow:
in.smtp:127.0.0.1
I allowed smtp calls to port 25, fixed the problem (and I believe this is
the secure and proper way to do this {yes/no?}) So what's the deal? (I
included some details about my system at the bottom of this letter that may
help)
Problem #2:
I need to do address rewriting, I know this, from reading, making some
tests, and trying configuration changes suggested in responses to my last
mail. Basically here is what I want to happen:
if to:field is not TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
change from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> from:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
change the from field in the envelope the same way..
}
so from reading the Exim spec, I believe the rewrite rule is like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Ff
only problem is how do I get it to do this ONLY when the TO: field is not
local (IE [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ?????
system stuff:
Debian 1.3.1 local host name: Zeek.org smarthost: Maine.edu
local users: root, ryder Mail name: Kryder71
Exim version: 1.61 #1 built 4-Mar-1997 Fetchmail version: 3.8 pl 0
.fetchmailrc: user kryder71 with pass XXXX is [EMAIL PROTECTED] here
thank's for any help / ideas / comments,
Ken
