[Pkg-exim4-users] can't connect to port 25 from other than localhost

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:40:42AM -0700, Derek Stevenson wrote:
> So now I'm thinking it's something in the exim config itself that's 
> blocking external port 25 connections, but the only things I've done to 
> customize the default exim config files is add a couple routers and 
> transports for cyrus and spamassassin, nothing else.

This looks like you told exim to listen only on 127.0.0.1 (which could
easily be determined using netstat -an).

This is controlled by the dc_local_interfaces option in
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, empty means "listen on all
interfaces".

This is at least clearly mentioned in the debconf templates, and the
update-exim4.conf manpage has been clarified in SVN in response to
your question.

Greetings
Marc

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