Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-18 Thread Dave Watkins
Adam Dawes wrote: Yes, that was part of the plan, to point my mx records to my provider. Therefore, any connections to my port 25 should be from only folks that are port scanning (sounds like a spammer to me). Think this is best done as a firewall issue or via David's host_reject option? thanks

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-18 Thread Dave Watkins
Adam Dawes wrote: Yes, that was part of the plan, to point my mx records to my provider. Therefore, any connections to my port 25 should be from only folks that are port scanning (sounds like a spammer to me). Think this is best done as a firewall issue or via David's host_reject option? thank

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-18 Thread Adam Dawes
Yes, that was part of the plan, to point my mx records to my provider. Therefore, any connections to my port 25 should be from only folks that are port scanning (sounds like a spammer to me). Think this is best done as a firewall issue or via David's host_reject option? thanks, Adam Dave Watkin

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-18 Thread Adam Dawes
Yes, that was part of the plan, to point my mx records to my provider. Therefore, any connections to my port 25 should be from only folks that are port scanning (sounds like a spammer to me). Think this is best done as a firewall issue or via David's host_reject option? thanks, Adam Dave Watkin

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-18 Thread David Clymer
> > What do I need to stick in my exim.conf to accept mail from just those > hosts that will be processing my mail? > host_reject should do the trick, assuming you are running woody with 3.3x

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-17 Thread Dave Watkins
Configuring Exim to do this would seem like a bad idea, in that your machine then has to accept a connection to determine if you do in fact even want to accept the mail. Ideally you would get the MX record for your domain pointing to your providers mail server (with perhaps a backup MX pointing

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-17 Thread David Clymer
> > What do I need to stick in my exim.conf to accept mail from just those > hosts that will be processing my mail? > host_reject should do the trick, assuming you are running woody with 3.3x. Check out the docs at http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_46.html#SEC824 If you are running

Re: Exim accepting mail from specific hosts

2003-12-17 Thread Dave Watkins
Configuring Exim to do this would seem like a bad idea, in that your machine then has to accept a connection to determine if you do in fact even want to accept the mail. Ideally you would get the MX record for your domain pointing to your providers mail server (with perhaps a backup MX pointing