Re: [exim] lmtp delivery to cyrus store over unix socket req…

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Author: Tony Finch
Date:  
To: OpenMacNews
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] lmtp delivery to cyrus store over unix socket requires /etc/hosts.allow entry. why?
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, OpenMacNews wrote:
>
> if there's a check you can suggest i can run to help clarify, happy to
> do so ...


Not a trivial one or I would have done it myself :-) The thing to do is to
write something to call getpeername() on a connected unix domain socket
and print the result.

> > 0.0.0.0 is a synonym for localhost.
>
> clear. just odd to me that they'd use 0.0.0.0, and that the "ususal"
> 127.0.0.1 or 'localhost' entries in hosts.allow are simply
> infeffectual/ignored.


0.0.0.0 would make sense if the socket address were unset or incorrectly
set.

Tony.
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