On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
 
> 4. I was told to open the port 587 for SMTP instead of 25 (no port
>    change was needed to access the POP server). So in /etc/inetd.conf
>    I tried both of these lines without success, and also commented the
>    line (reverted to port 25):

Why would you need to open a port? Your exim is the client accessing the 
server (smarthost) on port 587.

> I know that whenever I make changes to exim configuration or to the
> inetd.conf file, I must restart. Will both of these commands do it
> (I'm using debian Etch)? That is, does reconfiguring Exim also restart
> inetd, and does restarting inetd also rescan Exim4 configuration? 
> 
>   # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

Not sure if this restarts exim as well. To be 100% sure just do 
'invoke-rc.d exim4 restart'

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
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(Albert Einstein)

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