David Favor wrote: > I'm desiring to only use exim for outgoing mail. So don't accept any.... though you should have some other MX published that will handle postmaster@ for the domain you are sending from...
> > It appears exim will only run in daemon mode if it's listening > to port 25. Exim listens to the IP(s) and port(s) you specify. Or none at all. > > Let me know the best way to: > > 1) clear the queue (looks like exim should be run in cron every few > minutes) > It has its own queue-runner settings. Man exim. I use 30 to 60 *seconds* but that is a bit aggressive unless you are doing heavy mailing lists.. > 2) simple config to route queued mail for local host to port 25 for > delivery > Messages departing exim for 'off-box' destinations don't leave on port 25. Port 25 is where *other* MTA arrive to present their credentials when they submit messages. > 3) simple config to route all other queued mail to it's remote > destinations > See the routers and transports near the end of ~/exim/configure.default > 4) addition of a header 'token' to be used to guard against backscatter > bounces, Much more complex subject. Several methods in archives. But if you have chosen not to receive on this box, it is the *other* box where your 'postmaster@' is being handled that needs help w/r 'backscatter' management... > which must be generated randomly and saved in a SQLite database file > for periodic > expiration (deletion) > Exim will read/write to/from whatever you give it access to, but SQLite may not be the easiest way to convey that info to some other server. > Since this seems like a fairly common setup, It is a very small subset of a common setup. Exim is more often a full-service MTA, or at least a smarthost/relay. Not often used as an outbound-only critter, as that can be done with a few lines of perl, tcl, ruby, python, <insert poison of choice>. The hard work is in handling the incoming... > I'll publish the exim.conf > file when all this is working. > I'm biting my tongue now.... ..didn't work.. Go and read a bit and you'll find all the conf info you need to do the do. Mostly it is just turning OFF a few things OFF in the default configure and/or never setting up the rest. Most folks here HAVE working ~/exim/configure files... > Thanks for your assistance. > Don't mention it... Please don't ... ;-) Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
