Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25
Probably not. What you probably should do in your case is to tell exim to
listen only to 127.0.0.1.
ssmtp is not designed to store mail locally on the system. It moves
responsiblity for storing local mail to the MUA.
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Jose Marin wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, George Bonser wrote:
>
> > Maybe the correct answer for this user is not to use exim at all but to
> > use ssmtp which is, I think, the tool designed for this job.
>
> Thanks, I didn't know this existed.
>
> > WARNING: the above is all it does - it does not receive mail, expand
> > aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mailhub with a system
> > administrator.
>
> Mmmm... I still think it's useful to have a queue, so that you can write
> e-mail off-line, and have it all sent off next time you connect.
>
> And anyway, would fetchmail be able to deliver the mail to the user if one
> replaces exim with this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jose
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> Dept of Mathematics marin@posta.unizar.es
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