[ale] I lied, tcp wrappers question (was bastille/exim)

J.M. Taylor jtaylor at onlinea.com
Fri Apr 1 12:53:57 EST 2005


Thanks. I am an idiot. Clearly, I've relied on my firewalling skillz in 
the past and have never even touched tcp wrappers....  "exim" instead of 
the literal "smtp" was it, and I shall rtfm from now on.

Thanks!!!


On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Yu, Jerry wrote:

> just to clarify, you didn't use 'smtp' literally,right?   'exim' , or
> the actual "daemon process name (argv[0])", should be used, per
> hosts_access man page.
> just for test (while you trust your firewall), use 'ALL:ALL' to test.
> 
> all this said, w/o experience with 'exim'
> 
> # -----Original Message-----



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