Jay Sprenkle wrote: > W B Hacker wrote: > >>Jay Sprenkle wrote: >> >> >> >>>Good evening all, >>>I'm using KnoppMyth to implement a TiVo like system. It uses exim4 for >>>the MTA and I'm completely unfamiliar with it. >>>Would anyone be willing to help debug it? I will be happy to give you >>>credit and post a copy of the result to the KnoppMyth >>>forum so others don't have to go through this too... >>> >>>Thanks >>> >>> >> >>If Google is not lying to me about those two terms, you propose implementing >>an >>MTA on a set-top-box or TV/Entertainment functional equivalent thereof. >> > > Correct. > > >>That at least 'strongly suggests' operating on a dynamic-IP and in any case >>almost certainly without a PTR record or even *any* DNS entry. >> > > This is not my setup, but you're probably right in most cases. > > >>You should not be surprised if at least a few folks - buried in spam from >>zombies on such facilities already - might consider that 'less than >>praiseworthy' behaviour. >> >> > > > The knoppmyth distribution sets it up by default and you can't change > that default at install time. > I found that several programs are trying to write mail to it (such as > cron failures).
Do you have logs? Are there frozen messages in queue? Does the box have information for a default router - some pointer to a name server or 'search...'? For the chron jobs, you may need nothing more complex than aliasing 'root' to a valid off-box address, (or at least local non-root address), as Exim is normally defaulted to not run as, or deliver to 'root'. > I would like to accomplish a couple of things: > > 1. Tell people how to disable it completely (put together instructions > to tell it not to accept mail for delivery at all). It may well be already so defaulted. > I'll suggest to the devs at Knoppmyth to make it the standard for > the next distribution Check and see if they do not already have an instruction that covers at least the need for a valid 'alias' entry. > 2. Figure out how to make it work for advanced users without causing it > to become an open relay. Emailing notifications > would be a useful feature. My box is hidden from the internet behind a > NAT router so it's pretty difficult for anything > to connect to from outside. It could however relay through my existing > mail server. > > Any help would be appreciated > > > -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
