Author: Dave C. Date: To: Tamas TEVESZ CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] [OT] exim for an ancient arch
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i have a friend here who is running an ancient ultrix 4.3 (on a vax
> 3100). there's sendmail on it, dunno which exactly, but one could
> guess that's not from the last decade...). he has no compiler for the
> ultrix, nor space to install one.
>
> the machine is running some radio editorial system (don't ask, i don't
> have the slightest idea as to what ;), and it's sending some mails out
> regularly. of course it's open-relay. i wonder if anyone possibly has
> an exim compiled for such an architecture so we could somehow plug
> that hole in ?
>
> yes, i know it wouldn't neccessarily have to listen on a port to send
> mails. yes, i do know about firewalls et al. but it's not the easiest
> thing to get things moving in a radio company, at least not here ;)
Unless it needs to _receive_ mail, it should REALLY *not* be listening
on port 25. That would also fix the open relay problem.
(If its sendmail, remove the '-bd' from where sendmail is started)
> so if someone, anyone, possibly could give me a binary for such an
> arch, i'd very much appreciate it.
Yikes. Good luck. Too many variables (eg systen libraries)