---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:10:05 -0700 From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: exim help needed
> Did you look at /etc/aliases? Yeah, what should it say? > > - remote machines can't send mail to my machine (ie don't run a daemon > > on port 25) > > This line should be in your exim.conf: > host_accept_relay = localhost > > The deamon can run on port 25 because this setting will refuse to > accept mails from other hosts than your localhost. If you don't want > other hosts to connect to 25 in the first place, have a look at > /etc/hosts.allow and .deny Hm I'll check that out.. > > - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port > > forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. > > May I ask why you want outgoing mail to be sent through port 6025? Nominally because my school smtp server (the one I want to use) won't accept connections from machines outside the school subnet, and my ISP is different from the school's. So I've set up a tcp pipe from home to school via one of the school servers. Pine and Gnus use it, for example. -chris