On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:53:48PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > I'm using Demon Internet as my ISP, as you can probably guess. > > > Demon automatically sends email via SMTP if the port is open (as > > > far as I can tell), but there is now an optional POP3 service > > > available. Since I'd much rather use fetchmail on its own than > > > fetchmail and exim, I'd like to configure exim to not receive mail > > > from Demon's servers. I can't work out how to do this from the > > > exim docs - can anyone help? > > > > There is an option named sender_host_reject which might be what you need. > > Right. Doesn't that mean that the mails will be rejected, though? > All I want is port 25 to be closed to anything other than > localhost.
From the documentation and from what I have seen from trying myself it will look like your smtp server is temporarily down. This is probably what you want; there is a harder option which would return a more serious error to your isp but then the mail would probably get permanently rejected and an error message sent back to the sender. > I'm pretty sure exim is run from init.d, but i'm not entirely > certain. Yes, I think this is an option at install time. The other option should be enough for your problem (of course, that depends of the settings of your isp...). Hope it works :) -Lex
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