[Pkg-exim4-users] New user using Exim and Sympa

[Ian Kelling]

Jiangsu Kumquat <reply at mynetblog.com> writes:

> (Please send replies directly to me in addition to the list.)
>
> I have a few questions about using Exim. Running Exim and Sympa seems
> very complex. I pretty much have zero experience managing Exim and
> this is my first time using sympa. I installed sympa so I can manage a
> couple of small mailing lists.
>
> One of my main concerns is that since Exim is now running on a public
> port, I don't want it to be used to send spam mails to local accounts
> or through my server to others.
>
> ( FQDN = hostname -f )
>
> To avoid getting massive amounts of spam, would it be better to use
> sympa with a totally different domain name than the FQDN of the
> server? I don't want to receive any external mail to local accounts on
> the server. I don't want a pile of spam sent to abuse at FQDN, root at FQDN
> etc.

That won't matter if you've configured things correctly.

>
> My machine's FQDN is routable and I was wondering if it could receive
> mail or not so I sent a mail to "abuse at FQDN" from my Gmail account.
> ("abuse" is in the "/etc/aliases" file and is redirected to root.)
> This message is nowhere to be found. "/etc/mail" has no files in it. I
> have not gotten a bounce from Gmail yet.

You should look in the exim log. And then, learn about exim routers,
they are the main determinant of where mail goes, if it isn't initially
rejected by an exim acl.

>
> If I run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" will it mess up the sympa
> configuration? I am pretty sure that sympa is not configured to do
> much at this point because I don't remember configuring that part when
> debconf ran but sympa has processes running.

No.

>
> I was thinking about adding an alias to send mail for root to my Gmail
> account but I'm not sure how to make Exim know that I changed that
> file.

You haven't said what file you are talking about. It sounds like you may
want to do some general learning about exim.

>
> Thanks for any assistance you offer!
>
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