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Re: turning off exim on port 25



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 wrote:
> 
> 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 consult the manpage.  I don't run exim or I'd try to provide 
> further info on the config file.
> 
> At 07:24 PM 5/23/2001 -0500, Bryan Walton wrote:
> >This may be a better question for another list.  I am building a firewall
> >for my home LAN. I have exim configured for local delivery only (the only
> >thing I want it to do is move email from root to another userid).  Even
> >though I have configured exim for only local delivery, the exim daemon is
> >still listening on port 25.  Is there a flag I can use when starting up Exim
> >so that it won't listen on port 25?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Bryan
> >
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