Re: [PLUG] exim4 and tcp_wrappers

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:35:14AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said:
> I want to allow direct smtp to my machine, but only from a limited set
> of hosts (who MX for me).  Since exim4 is not linked against libwrap,
> I don't expect it to respect /etc/hosts.{deny,allow}, and it turns out
> that it doesn't when I try it.
> 
> So I put exim4 in inetd.conf:
> 
>    smtp   stream    tcp    nowait    uucp    /sbin/exim4 exim4 -bs

This should probably be
    smtp   stream    tcp    nowait    Debian-exim /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim4 exim4 -bs

But isn't iptables and running exim as a daemon simpler?
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