"Dr. Christian Seberino" <seberino@???> probably said:
> I use exim to *SEND* email but it seems more simple
> to not run exim daemon constantly and just have
> fetchmail bypass port 25 and give email directly
> to procmail.
>
> Fetchmail man page says this is bad because
> this:
> "disables some valuable resource-exhaustion checks
> and error handling provided by SMTP listeners"
>
> Does anyone understand this or have any opinions
> on this?
You have a lot more choices for rejecting (perm or temp) mail at SMTP
time than by calling the MTA directly. If you were transferring all
the mail for a site/domain/whatever and had significant amounts of
mail this might be a real consideration. If you're just doing
personal mail it's not really anything to worry about.
I've been using this with fetchmail and exim for quite a while on my
laptop. I don't have exim running as a daemon on my laptop.
poll pop.some.where proto IMAP port 993
no dns no envelope
user "username" pass "password" is "local-user" here
mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T"
smtpaddress local.fqdn;
no rewrite
ssl
You could also set the exim daemon to only listen on localhost if you
were only worried about security/access matters.
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