Re: What is required to deliver system mail locally ???
Hello
Tom (<tb.31112.nospam@comcast.net>) wrote:
>> > On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:42, Michael D Schleif wrote:
>> >> I do not want exim, nor its ilk, on open port 25.
>
> Is there any reason why exim has to listen on all IP addresses by
> default? I think it would be reasonable to ask during eximconf
> whether or not one wants to listen on 127.0.0.1 only.
>
> Is it worth filing a wishlist bug?
By default exim is not running in standalone mode. It is called by
inetd, and as far as I know you /cannot/ tell inetd which interfaces it
should listen to. To do so inetd would have to be replaced by xinetd.
You can however control inetd through /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny. Or, of course change the default config to let it run
in standalone mode.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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