Maybe the correct answer for this user is not to use exim at all but to use ssmtp which is, I think, the tool designed for this job.
>From the package description: A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mailhub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration. WARNING: the above is all it does - it does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mailhub with a system administrator. On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Jose Marin wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
