-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 19 2004 at 10:14:34AM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote: > Are you saying it's better to have exim even though I'm not using this > machine as a real email server? The whole mutt thing has been a little > confusing to me because it does say on mutt.org, supports imap and > pop3. Yeah pretty much. Both imap and pop3 are only for *receiving* mail. To send mail something has to understand smtp. Mutt does not do smtp but instead expects to communicate with a sendmail type program on your system. This program can be exim or another program with a link called sendmail wherever mutt expects to find sendmail. If you want to use exim it usually installs this link. You can ensure that exim won't allow outside connections by blocking port 25 incoming. This can be done in a number of ways. You could add a line to your /etc/hosts.deny file which prevents all non-local access to your smtp port. The line to add is: smtp: ALL That way is a bit clugy, and there are other better ways to ensure your security, but they get a little more complex and as you progress with linux you will figure more and more out. > Thanks for the tip on device naming. No problem I know it can be pretty confusing at first. - -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/B2M5JK61UXLur0RAjntAJ9Hx2/melP6qj/tGKq9XPGTSCNIdgCfSNER XPchCTQCZ0sRFrQXNKNsexc= =Zoe9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
