Stop SMTP

Saltopus

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Can I turn off SMTP to force people to use their own ISPs SMTP? If so, how can this be done?
 
Sure you can turn of SMTP. Of course if you do, your clients will not onlly not be able to send mail through your server; they won't be able to receive it either.

At the SMTP protocol level there's no difference between mail arriving on the server for local delivery and mail arriving from your clients for relay off the server.

You can do what you want with custom changes to exim.conf.

Jeff
 
Post 15 of that thread, here, looks like a good solution.

The only problem I see is that the exim.conf file he's modifying is many versions old; the lines where he says to inser the code may not exist.

Also, if you're going to do it server wide, just use the domains list; you don't have to create a new list.

Jeff
 
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