Re: [Exim] Exim for root mail only

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim for root mail only
* David Fisher <david@???> [20030910 12:59]: wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:40, Kevin W. Reed wrote:
>
> >
> > If you don't want them to receive any email, just don't run exim in
> > the background. It can't accept mail if it is not running.
> >
> > Then you can have your system setup to call exim for outbound mail
> > and if for some reason mail between the systems could be delayed,
> > setup a cron job to flush the exim buffer occasionally for mail that
> > was delayed.
> >
>
> I possibly should have added that the machines are Debian boxes where
> exim does not run as a daemon, but is called from inetd.


He meant that you should NOT run exim from inetd then ;)


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