On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:21:06AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I recently reinstalled Potato from scratch. As part of this I changed some > system software, including smail --> exim. > > How can I tell exim to refuse connections from other than local addresses? > I've searched the docs, but can find no answer.
from /etc/exim/exim.conf -> # The setting below allows your host to be used as a mail relay only by # localhost: it locks out the use of your host as a mail relay by any # other host. See the section of the manual entitled "Control of relaying" # for more info. host_accept_relay = localhost I assumed that (the default) was all that was needed short of firewalling it?