[gentoo-user] OT - A couple of questions about setting up exim

[gentoo-user] OT - A couple of questions about setting up exim

[Michael Sullivan]

I think I sent this question from
michael@espersunited.com about an hour ago, but as I
have not received it back again at either this
address, or espersunited.com and as I don't seem to
have sent any mail from espersunited.com since April,
I'll send this again.  In my exim.conf file, I'm a
little confused about the hostlist   relay_from_hosts
variable.  I need to be able to send mail from
127.0.0.1, 70.234.122.250 (the machine exim's running
on), 70.234.122.251, and 70.234.122.248 (which are two
other machines on my LAN).  How would I set the
variable thus?  Also, exim needs to be able to receive
mail from anywhere.  Is this the default behaviour?





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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - A couple of questions about setting up exim

[darren kirby]

quoth the Michael Sullivan:
> I think I sent this question from
> michael@espersunited.com about an hour ago, but as I
> have not received it back again at either this
> address, or espersunited.com and as I don't seem to
> have sent any mail from espersunited.com since April,
> I'll send this again.  In my exim.conf file, I'm a
> little confused about the hostlist   relay_from_hosts
> variable.  I need to be able to send mail from
> 127.0.0.1, 70.234.122.250 (the machine exim's running
> on), 70.234.122.251, and 70.234.122.248 (which are two
> other machines on my LAN).  How would I set the
> variable thus? 

From exim.conf:
# They are all colon-separated lists

So you want:

hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 70.234.122.251 : 70.234.122.248

I don't think you have to put "70.234.122.250" in here if it is the same 
machine as "127.0.0.1". At least I don't in my working configuration.

> Also, exim needs to be able to receive
> mail from anywhere.  Is this the default behaviour?

Short: Yes...
Long: I believe there are some spam filtering mechanisms in place in the 
default config that may block some hosts. This may or may not depend on which 
USE flags you built exim with. Check the ACL section of the config... 

HTH
-d
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