[ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

[Chris Rowson]

>>>> It can easily (you answer a few wizard questions) send mail only
>>> I'll give it a go :-)
>> Thanks, that worked brilliantly. The answer to the wizard question to
>> set the server up not to listen to SMTP requests from the Internet was
>> 'internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP' then
>> set the server to listen on localhost for SMTP.
>
> Actually that will have set it up to accept mail from the internet,
> but only allow sending mail from localhost.
>
> If you really don't want the box to receive any mail then you want one
> of the smarthost options iirc, that way your box sends mail but it
> expects all replies to go somewhere else (note that you really should
> have a legitimate reply address)
>

Are you sure? I just did a quick check and happened across this guide
(that I didn't notice before)
http://library.linode.com/email/exim/send-only-mta-ubuntu-10.04-lucid

It also seems to indicate selecting the 'internet site' option even
when using the server to send mail only.

Cheers,

Chris