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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-10-21 A Mennucc <debdev at tonelli.sns.it> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:41:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > 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.

> AFAICR, this question was not asked during my test install. 

> So I googled around, and found 
>  http://people.debian.org/~fjp/talks/debconf6/paper/ :
> it seems that the installer sets the default debconf priority to "high" . 
> Indeed, in my newly installed system I have
> # debconf-show debconf
>   debconf/priority: high

> So, it really seems that that question is not asked during standard install.

>> even if exim only listens on 127.0.0.1 it will except mail by SMTP,
> (I suppose  s/except/accept/ )

indeed.

>> (SMTP from the local machine), so the question is formally correct.

> The question "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP  connections:"
> is formally correct, but is not asked during install, and
> its default is not what people do expect from a SMTP server
> that is configured to
>  "mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail"
[...]

I simply disagree with you here.

Neither does the majority of "people" expect that it listens on all
interfaces for smarthost setups nor would it be a good idea for the
majority.
cu andreas
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