On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:12:02PM -0800, bobg.hahc@gmail.com wrote: > On Nov 16, 4:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West > <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > ... > > > I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only > > > email w/ valid recipients. > ... > > I suspect this won't be much help Bob, but its worth a shot. There is > > a relatively well commented sample configuration file in the debian > > package. You can find it at > > > > /usr/share/doc/exim4/examples/example.conf.gz > > > ... > > You'll likely need to configure just a handful of options to get what > > you need. > > > > ok; first off, let me explain a little better what I want to do: > > basically i want exim to take all inbound email, and relay email to > valid recipients on my exhcange 5.5 server. all other email traffic/ > relays/spam, should just be dropped/ignored. All outbound Email will > continue to be sent thru the exchange server. So all exim needs to do, > is filter & forward valid inbound Email... okay, this is helpful stuff. First off, search on www.debian-administration.org for exim stuff. There are a number of articles that will get you started with spamfiltering. That's really pretty easy to set up and you can pipe it all straight to /dev/null (called blackhole in exim configs). The part that is a little more difficult, probably, is figuring out who the valid senders are. There are a number of recipes out there for searching through text files for valid recipients, or using ldap and other methods for determining who a valid recipient is. I can't really answer that question. sorry. > > I read Doug's reply, and I'm not 100% sure what a smarthost is, but > don't think this is that application... nope. not a smarthost configuration. Smarthost is when exim acts just like an smtp-speaking MUA (thunderbird, sylpheed, what have you) and it simply routes all mail through a host called a smarthost, further upstream and that smarthost is the one that actually routes the mail. > that config example looks ALOT closer to a quick getting started > manual than ANYTHING else i've seen! > I'll have to dig into it a bit... I'm surprised none of my searches > revealed the contents of that file, or references to it... sounds to me like you need some ACL magic and then one router configured that takes all valid mail and sends it on to the exchange server. When all is said and done, you'll probably be able to excise a lot of that sample config out of the way. good luck. A
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