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Re: exim exposed to the internet



* J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (fsmla@xinara.org) [031012 08:43]:
> I'm happily using exim3 and exim4 on woody and sid systems. Still, on
> systems that don't need a full-blown MTA, I use ssmtp (as it is much smaller
> and simpler) and on systems that need a more complete MTA but don't need to
> receive mail, I use exim listening on localhost only.

As an alternative to listening on localhost, you can have exim not
listen at all, provided your sending applications can use the sendmail
interface instead of speaking smtp to localhost.  Just have it run
queue-runner processes from cron.

good times,
Vineet
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