John Andersen wrote:
Uh, I don't know how you managed to come to that conclusion. The default installation of Postfix is to listen to localhost only and allow only localhost to send mails. That is a bit different from what you describe. Anything else is something you define, whether it is through yast or by editing the config files.
You probably misunderstood something when you configured the system.
Quite possible, since I've only been using Linux for 10 years.
However, if you go back and try it on a new machine (not likely, I know) and check the box in yast that says you will accept remote connections, you will find you have an open relay.
That does seem a bit strange. Can't verify it at the moment, but I'll keep it in mind and try it the next time i set up a suse box. Do you need to any special format for the mail to be accepted for relaying?
Since you don't need an MTA at all if you were planning to pop your mail, this seems to be totally wrong headed way to do it. And, as I pointed out, its not the way Yast installs sendmail which has relaying denied.
Very strange indeed. Just a few days ago I installed postfix as a relay to secure a domino server that hat a problem with source routed mail messages and it works beautifully. Of course, I configured it manually by editing the config files. Sandy