Re: Exim - Balsa configuration
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:47:18PM -0500, Jay Kramer wrote:
> Your help is greatly appreciated. I am using Exim on my local machine.
> I wish to keep exim as secure as possible sticking with default
> configuration. When I attempt connect to it using a mail client such as
> Balsa or Thunderbird the only way that I can seem to make a connection
> is to configure the client SMTP and Pop3 server as localhost. However,
> to do this, it is necessary to edit the exim.conf file and uncomment the
> following line:
>
> host_accept_relay = localhost
>
> If I do not uncomment this line, I can not connect. However, I am
> afraid that I am compromising security by permitting localhost relaying.
> I don't need to uncomment this line for proper use with Mutt or Mail.
> Please help this misguided soul.
Don't worry ;-)
It just means what it means!
host_accept_relay is the way you specify the domain for which you can
relay. Only your host can use itself for relaying.
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work hard, die young
Thias
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