Eek.. sendmail and exim are the same type of beast. exim will do
everything sendmail will do - exim is not a mail 'client', but, like
sendmail a mail 'server'
If you dont want your exim to listen on port 25, I would just run it
without the '-bd' option, then it will not listen.
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Tom Huckstep wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry if this is a fairly basic question, but I can't find any
> reference to it in the FAQ.
>
> I have exim running on a workstation, and use it to send all my
> outgoing mail, by using sendmail, and to collect incoming mail in
> connection with fetchmail.
>
> I want to reject all connections from non-local hosts, so that no-one
> can connect to my computer to send me mail. Relaying is forbidden
> already, but I can't work out how to reject all outside connections
> without setting local_interfaces to 127.0.0.1, which seems messy to
> me.
>
> If anyone has any ideas I would be pleased to hear them.
>
> Please CC me in replys because I have not subscribe to receive
> messages from this list.
>
> Tom Huckstep
>
>
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