Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> [2003:11:15:09:15:22+0100] scribed: > Hello > > John L. Fjellstad (<john-debian@fjellstad.org>) wrote: > > > On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:42, Michael D Schleif wrote: > >> I do not want exim, nor its ilk, on open port 25. > >> > >> I do want system mail (cron, error messages, &c.) to be delivered to > >> root. > >> > >> Is exim required? > >> > >> If I uninstall exim, will system mail continue to be delivered? > >> > >> What is the Debian way to accomplish these goals? > > > > You don't need a MTA (like Exim) listening on port 25, to have it do > > local > > delivery. For instance, in qmail (which I'm familiar with), the > > listener program is a separate program from the delivery mechanism > > (don't know how it is in exim). > > In fact, exim doesn't have to be running at all to have local email > delivered. Deinstalling however will cause dependency problems because > packages like anacron, at, mailx and logrotate depend on MTA. OK, I guess this is where my thinking comes in. I have rerun eximconf, and told it to use option #4, that this computer is *not* on the Internet, and to only deliver local mail. Of course, now nothing is listening on port 25 ;> Nevertheless, having exim installed on this system appears to be overkill, and a possible security hole. I want local system mail delivered; and, I want ``packages like anacron, at, mailx and logrotate'' to function properly. What is the Debian way to promote this absolutely minimal mail system? How do others handle this? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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