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I only want to send email from my VPS through exim4.

When I run netstat -anltp | grep "LISTEN" the output is:

tcp        0      0 123.45.789.10:25        0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -               
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      - 

Does the fact that my public ip is listening on port 25 means that someone is sending mail also through my server?

My /var/log/exim4/mainlog file is filled with message like below and I got a message from google saying "mail sent from your IP address has been blocked".

2012-10-03 13:42:36 1TJJE5-0002WP-MG Message is frozen
2012-10-03 13:42:36 1TIkPN-0003Ck-Sy Message is frozen
2012-10-03 13:42:36 End queue run: pid=20219
2012-10-03 14:12:35 Start queue run: pid=20258
2012-10-03 14:12:35 1TIkPN-0003Ck-Sy Unfrozen by errmsg timer
2012-10-03 14:18:20 1TIkPN-0003Ck-Sy SMTP timeout while connected to primary.mail.mailprovider.nl [12.34.567.89] after initial connection: Connection timed out
2012-10-03 14:18:21 1TIkPN-0003Ck-Sy ** shari_estes@site1.com R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<shari_estes@site1.com>: host fallback.mail.mailprovider.nl [123.45.678.900]: 550 no mailbox by that name is currently available
2012-10-03 14:18:21 1TIkPN-0003Ck-Sy shari_estes@site1.com: error ignored
2012-10-03 14:18:21 1TIkPN-0003Ck-Sy Completed
2012-10-03 14:18:21 1TJJE5-0002WP-MG Message is frozen
2012-10-03 14:18:21 1TIlFL-0000hI-NF Message is frozen

I am bit lost here. Thanks for any help in advance.

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