Author: Dan Lowe Date: To: Tom Huckstep CC: Dr Andrew C Aitchison, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Rejecting all connections from non-local hosts
Previously, Tom Huckstep said: >
> > Which MUAs talk to port 25 on the local host, rather than running
> > exim themselves ?
>
> It's fetchmail I'm worried about. The man page says that it's better
> to use SMTP, as opposed to running a command:
I'd stop using inetd, start up a daemon (i.e. exim -bd -q1h) and set
local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
Then it will bind only to localhost, and your "external" IP(s) won't
have a listening daemon on them.
-dan
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