Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?
Quoting Michael Stone (mstone@debian.org):
> comment out the line in inetd.conf and remove any S20exim links in
> /etc/rc?.d. Removing the S links is the proper way to keep a service
> from running in debian; the link removal is preserved across upgrades.
Nick didn't sound as if he wanted to prevent Exim from running; he
needed it to cease listening to his outside interface's port 25.
(Without an MTA of some sort running, strictly local mail might have a
bit of a problem, no?) Thus my suggestion of saying in exim.conf that
the only interface the daemon should listen on is loopback.
I think everyone's so used to giving the "remove the symlinks" answer
that they didn't stop to consider better ways, in light of Nick's
described situation.
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