Hi all, A home user typically receives e-mail with a pop program (fetchmail), and therefore he has no use for his MTA _listening_ for incoming mail on inet port 25, am I right? Because I assume fetchmail passes its load on to the MTA via the local interface, 127.0.0.1, isn't it so?
Therefore it seems reasonable to have an MTA configured to _not_ listen on the ppp0 interface, while still having the stmp transport enabled for outgoing mail through ppp0 or any other interface besides lo. Can I do this with exim? I've looked but I really couldn't find anything... help! Yes, I know I could firewall incoming traffic for port 25, but first I'm looking for a simple config for exim, if it exists. Would I have more luck with postfix instead? Jose PS: Is there any inetd replacement which can listen selectively on the various interfaces? Maybe this could be a solution for having both exim and leafnode not listening on the inet ports for home users, what do you think??? -- Jose L Marin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Mathematics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, U.K. Phone: +44 131 451 3717 Fax: +44 131 451 3249
