On 2010-01-20, Adam Hardy <adam....@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote: > I'm installing stuff onto a vserver which I have just got, and according to > the > sysadmin at the hosting provider, due to their set-up, I can't configure exim > to > listen on 127.0.0.1, I have to use the given IP address. > > In case that doesn't make sense, I mean that I am not supposed to get this > netstat output: > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > > It should listen like this (or all hell breaks loose on their server farm): > > tcp 0 0 10.20.30.40:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > where 10.20.30.40 is the static IP I've been given (which is then NAT'd by > the > hosting provider to something else). > > My vserver set-up has very simple requirements - I just want the system to > send > out emails generated on the system locally, e.g. piping command output to > mailx > > Any enlightenment much appreciated > > Adam > >
Try running (as root) 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' and follow the prompts. An explanation of the various options is given in Section 2 of the file /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.html. Or, as others have suggested, you might be better off with a simpler MTA such as esmtp. Liam -- Liam O'Toole Birmingham, United Kingdom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
