Yes, Exim will still deliver from the queue (there's a cron job to run
every 30 minutes), and exim will still send outgoing email if needed. I
use exim on any of my machines that will not be receiving mail for a
domain. By eliminating the smtp line from inetd.conf, I don't show up
with an active po
From: "Eric N. Valor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Debian-User Mailing List
,debian-firewall@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: turning off exim on port 25
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:22:12 -0700
I'm pretty sure that you can ei
I'm pretty sure that you can either start it in inetd mode or daemon mode
(from init.d/). It depends on how you config it at install.
Also, I believe Bryan still wanted it to do internal delivery work, but
just wanted to turn off the port 25 listen (can't do it without disabling
exim). A b
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:33:40PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote:
>
> That pretty much turns off exim altogether.
Actually the script in /etc/init.d/ will start exim in stand-alone mode
if you disable the listener in inetd.conf. So you will still have it
listening on 25/tcp.
> While effective for
That pretty much turns off exim altogether. While effective for disabling
the Port 25 listen, it doesn't allow Bryan to use exim for his purposes. I
think he's also using it in daemon mode rather than being run from inetd.
At 01:22 AM 5/24/2001 -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
Ummm, maybe it's jus
Ummm, maybe it's just too late at night and I'm missing something, but I
think you can do what you want by editing /etc/inetd.conf, and removing
or commenting out the following line:
smtp stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
--Rich
Bryan Walton wrote:
>
> This may
Thanks to Tod and Eric for their ideas on how to make Exim quit running on
port 25 and only listen on localhost. Here is what I did. I edited my
exim.conf file and added the following:
local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
Thanks again!
Bryan
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:43:39PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wro
I believe it uses port 25 to talk even internally. What you can do, short
of using an IPChains/Tables rule to deny external port 25 traffic, is to
set the "local_interface" option in exim's config file. Set it to only lo
and it'll only talk to the loopback device internally.
For more info
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