From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 12:54:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe2.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-238-214.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.207.238.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF0337B403 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:54:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@absinthe2.dyndns.org) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe2.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f73JsOc07450; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:54:24 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: Erin Fortenberry Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <20010803125424.B7390@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Mail-Followup-To: Erin Fortenberry , "'questions@freebsd.org'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:42:45PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:42:45PM -0700, Erin Fortenberry wrote: > My goal is for sendmail to not listen to anyports, only on lo0 if needed. > This machine is a web server and I keep getting people attaching to ports 25 > to try and relay email. I could just block the port, but I would think > sendmail could be configured to shut off the port itself. > You don't need to have sendmail listen on the loopback. When you send mail from the local system (with pine or mutt, for example), the MUA will invoke sendmail to deliver the mail. The sendmail -q1h running in the background will retry mail that can't immediately be sent. So you don't need a listening daemon at all. -- ______________________________________________________ ( fred@condo.chico.ca.us Repeal the DMCA. Free Dmitry. ) ------------------------------------------------------ o ^__^ o (**)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ U ||--WWW | || || To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message