From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 22:12:41 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 22:12:39 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx460-mta.mail.com (rmx460-mta.mail.com [165.251.48.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6D737B402 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:12:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from web596-mc (web596-mc.mail.com [165.251.48.97]) by rmx460-mta.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA00557; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 01:12:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <385455476.978502358181.JavaMail.root@web596-mc> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 01:12:38 -0500 (EST) From: User Land To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: port 587 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: mail.com X-Originating-IP: 216.7.182.117 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a hopefully simple question. netstat -na | grep LISTEN reports that among other expected ports listening, so is port 587. /etc/services tells me that this is for service "submission", but I don't know what that is, and I'd like to turn it (port 587) if it's not being used (the services running on the machine are: smtp, pop3, http, ssh, ftp & smbd, all on the standard ports). So...my question is: what is port 587, and how can I turn it off if it is not needed by the above services? Thank you! ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message