The daemon only handles incoming mail, or in other words waits for incoming connections from other mail servers. Outgoing mail is sent on demand, or in other words a connection is made to a mail server or relay as and when required. Cheers, Cliff On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net> wrote: > Had a surprising event on C 6.5. > > Exim was the only MTA installed. It was partially configured (with ACL, > Router, Transport) and definitely not running. > > I was remotely testing a web page. A web page error condition invoked > the embedded PHP mail() command. > > To my astonishment something in Centos woke-up Exim. Exim sent the email > and then became inactive again. The Exim logs does not show any start-up > lines, just > > 1. input from Apache. > 2. output to remote server. > 3. 'completed'. > > Hours later Logwatch, not yet customised, also caused inactive Exim to > send an email (which got rejected by Exim because it was to local user > 0). > > What causes Centos to temporarily activate in-active (meaning > non-running) Exim ? > > Thanks, > > Paul. > England EU. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >