Hello Harry, On 05/10/14 18:01, Harry Putnam wrote: > when running `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' I've run accross a few > of the questions that are confusing to me... > > The current one I'm stumbling over is > > 1) A question about listing of host IPs the smtp listener will > listen for... All the hosts listed here will be able to send mails to your server. > > And then later on there is > 2) A question about which hosts your server will relay for. > All the hosts listed here will be able to send any mail via your server to a remote host, your server is not the destination for the mail.
You should leave the relay-list empty unless you really know what you are doing. Mail to remote hosts should generally only be processed for users that have authenticated to your SMTP-server. Hope I could help, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54317f5f.3000...@gmail.com
