Yes, Exim will still deliver from the queue (there's a cron job to run every 30 minutes), and exim will still send outgoing email if needed. I use exim on any of my machines that will not be receiving mail for a domain. By eliminating the smtp line from inetd.conf, I don't show up with an active port 25 to tempt spammers. Output of cron jobs and the like will still be passed on to my smarthost.
--Rich Jim Breton wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:33:40PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > > > That pretty much turns off exim altogether. > > Actually the script in /etc/init.d/ will start exim in stand-alone mode > if you disable the listener in inetd.conf. So you will still have it > listening on 25/tcp. > > > While effective for disabling > > the Port 25 listen, it doesn't allow Bryan to use exim for his purposes. I > > think he's also using it in daemon mode rather than being run from inetd. > > I'm not sure whether exim will still do deliveries from the queue if you > disable the tcp listener (I don't use exim), but if it does, I'd suggest > shutting it off altogether. Just put an "exit 0" at the top of the > script. > > (Again I'm not sure if exim will still work correctly after that, and I > don't have a box handy with exim on it to test... so try it out.) > > -- > > Jim B. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________