Package: exim4-config Version: 4.72-2 Severity: wishlist Hi!
This is a wishlist - I think it might be convenient if the debconf had an extra local mail option where it doesn't try to send mail to external adresses, except for local mail which is delivered it to some address specified by the user. I have two use cases: 1. I got exim installed on my laptop but I don't want it to actually do anything else than collecting local mail. I use mail apps that talk directly to other smarthosts (e.g. gmail or my ISP). However, some daemons on the laptop, like cron and smartmontool, sometimes send me mail when there's a problem. I'd like to get that mail rather than letting it rot in a local mailbox that I never check. 2. I run a web-based company with some servers. One of them runs a mail server with internet delivery. The others I don't want to ever try to send mail, to simplify management and because some of them are test servers where I don't want the possibility of some mail accidentally escaping from a test run on a script that works with real data. However, I'd still like to get local mail from cron and smartmontools. So exim should only listen on the loopback interface, external adresses get rejected, and any local mail is simply forwarded to some external address I specify. Is this feasible? Maybe it's already possible right now? Ole -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.72 #1 built 30-Oct-2010 13:38:48 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007 Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April 9, 2010) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.8.6 GnuTLS runtime version: 2.8.6 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages exim4-config depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy exim4-config recommends no packages. exim4-config suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/exim4/passwd.client [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/exim4/passwd.client' -- debconf information: exim4/dc_smarthost: exim4/dc_relay_domains: exim4/dc_relay_nets: * exim4/mailname: beta.iola.dk * exim4/dc_localdelivery: Maildir format in home directory * exim4/dc_local_interfaces: 127.0.0.1 * exim4/dc_minimaldns: false * exim4/dc_other_hostnames: beta.iola.dk * exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype: local delivery only; not on a network exim4/no_config: true exim4/hide_mailname: exim4/dc_postmaster: arj exim4/dc_readhost: * exim4/use_split_config: false exim4/exim4-config-title: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
