On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:47:46PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Michael Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > comment out the line in inetd.conf and remove any S20exim links in > > /etc/rc?.d. Removing the S links is the proper way to keep a service > > from running in debian; the link removal is preserved across upgrades. > > Nick didn't sound as if he wanted to prevent Exim from running; he > needed it to cease listening to his outside interface's port 25. > (Without an MTA of some sort running, strictly local mail might have a > bit of a problem, no?) Thus my suggestion of saying in exim.conf that > the only interface the daemon should listen on is loopback.
The default Debian Exim configuration will still work even if you remove the links and don't start the daemon: local mail submission works via a setuid binary, not over port 25, and if for whatever reason the message can't be handled immediately, the crontab fragment in /etc/cron.d/exim will do a queue run every 15 minutes. -- William Aoki KD7YAF [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML in mail or news! X / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]