Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (448 mails)

[Andreas Amann <andreas.amann@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 18 May 2002, Graham Murray wrote:

> Andreas Amann <andreas.amann@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Could be an Exim daemon that is trying to verify your email address.
>
> Yet many (probably the vast majority of) people do not run an SMTP
> server which allows incoming connections as email comes via ISPs and
> POP3. The one is SuSE 8.0  does not listen on external interfaces out
> of the box - you have to enable it if you want, which is a good
> security measure.
>

Well, true and i probably miss your point here, but it seems sourceforge
is running an exim mailer that is configured to do what the exim folks
call an "callout". This callout does exactly what GertJan asked for.
I am not experienced with exim, so please do not ask me for
details. I just did a small lookup in the exim-documentation and telnet'd
to that host because somebody told me about this 'feature' some while ago.
(reference: Exim-Specification, ch. 37.10, www.exim.org)

-- 
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Andreas Amann  < andreas.amann@xxxxxxxx >