Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:55:54 +0200 (EET) From: Domas Mituzas <domas.mituzas@delfi.lt> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail listening on port 587 ??!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103191150170.3989-100000@axis.tdd.lt> In-Reply-To: <49989.984993633@critter>
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> I just found out that sendmail listens to port 587 in addition to
> port 25 now.
from 8.10.0 changelog:
sendmail implements RFC 2476 (Message Submission), e.g., it can
now listen on several different ports. Use:
O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA, Port=587, M=E
to run a Message Submission Agent (MSA); this is turned
on by default in m4-generated .cf files; it can be turned
off with FEATURE(`no_default_msa').
As far as I understand, if you don't firewall 25 you don't have any need
to firewall this, as it speaks smtp. In fact, message submission was
desingned to be a gateway between all message transfer system and mail
user agent, thus by eliminating some checks in whole transfer layer.
As it is proposed standard, firewall configurations need to be ajusted to
that.
Cheers,
Domas Mituzas
DELFI Internet, UAB
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