Re: [Exim] Port 587

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: exim-users
New-Topics: Re: [Exim] Port 587
Subject: Re: [Exim] Port 587
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 15:15, Craig Kelley wrote:
> Have Exim listen on two ports; one of them a local-only port. Then,
> have stunnel connect the second port with 465 on SSL. That way, you can
> still differentiate SSL vs. non-SSL traffic in a single exim.conf file.
>
> Can anyone see a problem with doing it that way?


Yes.

The connections exim "sees" are all from 127.0.0.1 - which makes host
and RBL checks useless, and may have the interesting side effect of
making it so anyone can relay through your box (127.0.0.1 is often a
trusted network).

    Nigel.
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