[plug] Email server to receive email only?

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Feb 5 12:56:49 WST 2004


Russ Powers wrote:

| This may sound odd, but can I set up my server to just receive email for 
| a domain and not send mail? The logic being to minimise the risk and the 
| amount of support. I have other methods of sending email.

It can be done.  Which mail server are you using?  In the case of exim3,
you can remove the routers that send mail to other hosts.  With exim4
you can use ACLs to deny outgoing mail.  With sendmail and postfix you'd
have to ask someone who is not me. :-)

Cameron.




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