Re: exim help needed (fwd)
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:10:05 -0700
From: Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>
To: Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: exim help needed
> Did you look at /etc/aliases?
Yeah, what should it say?
> > - remote machines can't send mail to my machine (ie don't run a daemon
> > on port 25)
>
> This line should be in your exim.conf:
> host_accept_relay = localhost
>
> The deamon can run on port 25 because this setting will refuse to
> accept mails from other hosts than your localhost. If you don't want
> other hosts to connect to 25 in the first place, have a look at
> /etc/hosts.allow and .deny
Hm I'll check that out..
> > - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port
> > forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25.
>
> May I ask why you want outgoing mail to be sent through port 6025?
Nominally because my school smtp server (the one I want to use)
won't accept connections from machines outside the school subnet,
and my ISP is different from the school's. So I've set up a tcp
pipe from home to school via one of the school servers. Pine and Gnus
use it, for example. -chris
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