On Aug 17, keith@topaz5.worldonline.co.uk <keith@topaz5.worldonline.co.uk>...:
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.
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