Thanks to Tod and Eric for their ideas on how to make Exim quit running on port 25 and only listen on localhost. Here is what I did. I edited my exim.conf file and added the following:
local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 Thanks again! Bryan On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:43:39PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > I believe it uses port 25 to talk even internally. What you can do, short > of using an IPChains/Tables rule to deny external port 25 traffic, is to > set the "local_interface" option in exim's config file. Set it to only lo > and it'll only talk to the loopback device internally. > > For more info consult the manpage. I don't run exim or I'd try to provide > further info on the config file. > > At 07:24 PM 5/23/2001 -0500, Bryan Walton wrote: > >This may be a better question for another list. I am building a firewall > >for my home LAN. I have exim configured for local delivery only (the only > >thing I want it to do is move email from root to another userid). Even > >though I have configured exim for only local delivery, the exim daemon is > >still listening on port 25. Is there a flag I can use when starting up Exim > >so that it won't listen on port 25? > > > >Thanks, > >Bryan > > > >-- > >Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst > >Berbee...putting the E in business http://www.berbee.com/ > >GPG fingerprint: BF68 340D A650 E2D7 86B9 FED5 DDFF 3EEE 3229 7B5D > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Eric N. Valor > Webmeister/Inetservices > Lutris Technologies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - This Space Intentionally Left Blank - -- Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee...putting the E in business http://www.berbee.com/ GPG fingerprint: BF68 340D A650 E2D7 86B9 FED5 DDFF 3EEE 3229 7B5D
