On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 04:55 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:16:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Ignorance, fear of becoming an open relay and years of learning 
> > will have to be overcome before Most Users will config Debian to
> > use a relayhost.
> 
> It's not very difficult to have exim, the default MTA, simply not launch
> an smtp listener. If it's only running queues and providing the
> /usr/sbin/sendmail interface, you cannot possibly be a mail relay, since
> nothing even listens on port 25. The configuration file to edit for this
> is /etc/default/exim4

Would that prevent local email?  Or would you then say, "only listen
on localhost"?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA

People like to call themselves "social liberal & fiscal
conservative". Unfortunately, these 2 are diametrically opposed,
since the social liberal wants more government "help", and the
fiscal conservative wants smaller government.


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