Re: Best way to start exim4?
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:41:40AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:20:27PM +0100, Jimmy Johansson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wondering which is the best way to start exim4. I'm fetching my mail
> > from my ISP with fetchmail manually with a script because I only want to
> > do it when I am connected to internet.
> >
> > As I see it there are 3 alternatives, but if anybody can come up with a
> > 4:th please tell me.
> >
> > 1) Starting exim as a daemon in /etc/rc$.d and protecting it with
> > iptables and binding it to localhost in exim.conf.
>
> Why would you need iptables if you set local_interfaces in exim4.conf?
I want to log any attempts to connect to port 25. Isn't iptables the way
to do this? Also I want the added defense, so that if I do something
stupid and/or want to open up exim4 to the world then this defense is
already there. Maybe this is complete nonsense, but I am completly new
to this and trying to learn so "slap my fingers" if I say something
stupid!
/Jimmy
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