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Re: [suse-security] Stopping SMTP listening on port 25
- From: Armin Schoech <armin.schoech@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:02:33 +0000 (GMT)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308171001310.23004-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Aug 17, keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...:
> > when I do netstat -lt (on SuSE 8.1 pro), netstat tells me
> > that SMTP is waiting for incomming tcp connections.
> > tcp 0 0 localhost:smtp *:* LISTEN
> As you can see, it is only listening on localhost, not on all interfaces.
> So you don't have to be concerned.
>
--> And postfix has to listen on localhost because fetchmail (at least
in the standard configuration) uses your local MTA (mail transport
agent) to deliver the mail to your inbox.
Armin
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