hi again On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:41:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> The packages also asks "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP > connections:" at debconf priority medium. - This question is > definitely asked at the correct priority, as it has a reasonable > default value. AFAICR, this question was not asked during my test install. So I googled around, and found http://people.debian.org/~fjp/talks/debconf6/paper/ : it seems that the installer sets the default debconf priority to "high" . Indeed, in my newly installed system I have # debconf-show debconf debconf/priority: high So, it really seems that that question is not asked during standard install. > even if exim only listens on 127.0.0.1 it will except mail by SMTP, (I suppose s/except/accept/ ) > (SMTP from the local machine), so the question is formally correct. The question "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP connections:" is formally correct, but is not asked during install, and its default is not what people do expect from a SMTP server that is configured to "mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail" IMHO, when the person installing Debian chooses "mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail" s/he most probably is sending email anywhere on the Internet, and is expecting replies from anywhere on the Internet. But "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP connections:" will be silently set to "127.0.0.1" . This is not what people do expect. My suggestion is: if the user chooses to configure Exim4 to only do local delivery, then set the default of "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP connections:" to 127.0.0.1 ; in all other cases, set it to accept all connections. a. -- Andrea Mennucc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]