Bug#394438: exim4: allow SMTP from remote when configuring for smarthost

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-10-21 A Mennucc <mennucc1 at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.63-3
> Severity: normal

> hi

> I just did a fresh install of etch, to test it.

> During the inital install process, I was asked how to
>  configure Exim, and I chose 
>  " mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail"
> but then  I was not receiving external email,
> and found out that Exim was not listening to *:SMTP .

> So I did "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and
> found out that it had autoconfigured to only receive SMTP
> from localhost; but this is in contrast with the above.
[...]

Hello,
even if exim only listens on 127.0.0.1 it will except mail by SMTP,
(SMTP from the local machine), so the question is formally correct.
The packages also asks "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP
connections:" at debconf priority medium. - This question is
definitely asked at the correct priority, as it has a reasonable
default value.
cu andreas
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