Re: turning off exim on port 25

[Jim Breton <vader@conflict.net>]

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 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.

I'm not sure whether exim will still do deliveries from the queue if you
disable the tcp listener (I don't use exim), but if it does, I'd suggest
shutting it off altogether.  Just put an "exit 0" at the top of the
script.

(Again I'm not sure if exim will still work correctly after that, and I
don't have a box handy with exim on it to test... so try it out.)

-- 

Jim B.
vader@conflict.net