On Jo, 01 iul 10, 19:43:44, lee wrote: > > One downside seems to be that it creates lots of exim processes, and > > I am not sure why yet. It may be open connections with dropping > > data as a result of the recently added iptables rule > > Just to be curious, what is the thinking/idea/advantage behind > disallowing connections by firewall rules instead of denying the > relaying or blacklisting the originating IPs through exims > configuration? I'm not very familiar with this stuff, but I can imagine: - two levels of defense - sparing exim all the useless connections Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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