Re: [exim] exim listens on http port

> I believe it happens when there are exim child processes spawned from
> Apache, and you then kill Apache. This happens e.g. if you have perl or
> php scripts that call "/usr/bin/sendmail" or similar to send mail, and
> those child processes are still running when you kill the webserver.

this may be the cause, because around that time tousands of mails were
send
out by a php script.

stone