Peter,
Thanks for the kind reply. What did you mean when
you said you could make exim daemon only listen
to localhost? From what you said sounds like
for personal use bypassing a running daemon has
no negatives. I'm glad to hear that.
Chris
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:22:43PM -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> "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.
>
> \pir
>
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