Directadmin Ok, but wish to turn some services off

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mcristaldi

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Hi,

I've installed Directadmin on a Debian Server. Everything works fine but I don't want to use this particular service for pop/email (only SMTP for email sending would be ok).

Wich is the most clean and "directadmin friendly" way to permanently disable these services (exim, etc)? I know I can remove them from the init sequence but I don't know if this can cause problem to directadmin...

thank you,

Massimo
 
You contradict yourself.

You said "only SMTP for email sending would be ok" but then say "permanently disable these services (exim, etc)."

You cannot have it both ways. Exim handles all mail transfers.

The real question is why do you want to disable these services?
 
Actually, Floyd, in the case of exim, you can disable it and leave it on your server, and services on the server using what's called the sendmail interface will still be able to send email reports, warnings, and even email from certain programs/forms, etc., will still work, as long as they use the sendmail interface and NOT SMTP connections.

Jeff
 
It doesn't sound like exim would be doing anything regarding SMTP anyway since he is not going to have any domains pointing to it. It will be idle for the most part. I don't see the advantage of turning it off.
 
A little off topic now but ... So would a spammer configure his mail server to look at A records instead of MX? Or does he somehow fool the mail server into thinking the A records are MX? Or something else? Just trying to learn something.
 
floyd said:
You contradict yourself.

You said "only SMTP for email sending would be ok" but then say "permanently disable these services (exim, etc)."

You cannot have it both ways. Exim handles all mail transfers.

The real question is why do you want to disable these services?
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Hi,

Together with exim and the based directadmin services there are a lot of web application (squirrel etc.) for web mail etc. Now, since we manage our emails using google.com/a services, we just need DNS/MYSQL/Apache.
Still, however, we may need Websites sending emails and producing reports. But just SMTP, no Pop ect.
A secure SSHD connection and a secure FTP would complete the picture. For the latter it is just a matter of reconfiguring SSHD and Proftpd. No problems.
What about Exim? Would it be enough to exclude it from the init list? How to use sendmail only services?

Massimo
 
Jeff already answered.

you can disable it and leave it on your server, and services on the server using what's called the sendmail interface will still be able to send email reports, warnings, and even email from certain programs/forms, etc., will still work, as long as they use the sendmail interface and NOT SMTP connections.
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Yes exclude it from the init list and tell DirectAdmin to stop monitoring it.
 
I suppose you can also leave it running so as to make SMTP available locally, by changes to the exim.conf file so it only accepts smtp connections from localhost.

Jeff
 
floyd said:
So would a spammer configure his mail server to look at A records instead of MX? Or does he somehow fool the mail server into thinking the A records are MX? Or something else? Just trying to learn something.
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Spamservers aren't your standard mailservers; they're written to do what they do. And they're written in many cases to try both A and MX records.

Jeff
 
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