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Author: Klaus Ethgen
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Is it possible to configure exim to receive emails from printer and relay them through gmail?
Am Do den 10. Sep 2015 um 12:46 schrieb Ariel Arelovich:
> Set to "127.0.0.1" for "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP
> connections" to refuse external connections.
>
> I changed it to 127.0.0,1;10.255.255.51 so that exim will accept my
> printers emails (that last IP is the printer address).
>
> However I allways get a:
>
> 2015-09-10 08:00:01 socket bind() to port 25 for address 10.255.255.51
> failed: Cannot assign requested address: waiting 30s before trying
> again (1 more try)


The address you configure there is the address the server is
listening(!). You cannot limit the senders here.

To limit the allowed senders, you have to setup some ACL to do so.
Common way is to configure some hostlist to do so.

Gruß
   Klaus
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