well as you really haven't told us what your lan setup for email is, its a bit hard to know.
that certainly looks as if it'll turn smtp off. do the other machines on the lan use the laptop as their email gateway? or is it just for sending messages to users on the laptop? On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:04:33 +1300 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:55, you wrote: > > does exim emulate a sendmail binary? if so, set up your email clients to > > use sendmail rather than smtp and then turn exim's smtp service off. > > I think this port is open to allow other machines on the network to use > this machine as a gateway. > > In /etc/inetd.conf I have the following line: > > #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs > > I think I just need to comment this out and SIGHUP inetd > > Andy -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
