Re: FN-FORUM: Setting up Exim smtp

date posted 1st March 2006 19:28

Jonathan Chong wrote:
> Hi James
>
> Thanks for getting back so quickly.
>
> Yes, every outgoing email will be sent from my box alone, as I don't
> want my server to be used as a smtp server for spammers. How do I
> enable this in Exim? I already have this at the top of the exim.conf
> file:
>
> hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1

What do you have configured as the SMTP server in Thunderbird?

> Re second problem, I sent this email from a web form to an email
> address hosted on an Exchange server, and here are the message
> servers:

Personally I'd not be worried about that, but if you must used the PHP
mail function that you may be able to reconfigure PHP to submit the
message to exim using the command line in the way that someone else has
already suggested by changing the setting for the "sendmail_path"
configuration variable.

James