On Wednesday 20 January 2010 17:58:35 Adam Hardy wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 20/01/10 21:23, wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 14:59:15 Adam Hardy wrote: > >> Liam O'Toole on 20/01/10 20:41, wrote: > >>> On 2010-01-20, Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote: > >>>> My vserver set-up has very simple requirements - I just want the > >>>> system to send out emails generated on the system locally, e.g. piping > >>>> command output to mailx > >>> > >>> Try running (as root) 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' and follow the > >>> prompts. > >> > >> I did that to begin with, since I had to install exim myself anyway. The > >> option to be an "internet server; mail is sent and received using SMTP" > >> is the closest, but as above, I don't want to receive. > > > > Use that setting. > > Not allowed to do that - apparently it would foobar the local network where > the host server of my vserver sits. I've got to use the public IP address > if I configure this, but I'd feel happier if I didn't have to listen on > port 25 at all. I don't want any incoming mail - I just want to send. If you want to send, you'll have to use that setting. You can then further configure exim4 not to listen, if you so desire. I have mine listening on 127.0.0.1:25 ONLY. Some programs (not mail/mailx) that send mail will expect a MTA listening on localhost and use it, so if you don't listen on 127.0.0.1:25, expect things to break in the future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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