From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 3:59:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h015.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E798637B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 03:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 27305 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2001 03:59:17 -0800 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.222) with SMTP; 9 Jan 2001 03:59:17 -0800 X-Sent: 9 Jan 2001 11:59:17 GMT From: "Otter" To: , "blaz" Cc: Subject: RE: port 587 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:04:26 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20010108235601.L95729@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ...and all this time I thought it was just the foundation for FreeBDSM! =] -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of }Crist J. Clark }Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:56 AM }To: blaz }Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Re: port 587 } } }On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:26:39PM -0600, blaz wrote: }> greetings, }> }> when doing a netstat -a| grep LISTEN, I obtain the following: }> }> Port State Service }> 22/tcp open ssh }> 25/tcp open smtp }> 110/tcp open pop-3 }> 587/tcp open submission }> }> }> what the hell is 587? and do I need it? } }EMail "submission." You might not need it now, but perhaps someday }mail clients will submit there. See the release notes for your }sendmail for details. The basic idea is that email clients should not }really be using the same port for submitting mail that MTAs use to }transfer between sites. } }Have a look at sockstat(1) to convince yourself it is sendmail. }-- }Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu } } }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message