At 09:37 AM 1/19/2005 -0800, you wrote:

Why is SMTP showing up in a port scan when I'm not running a mail server?

Sendmail usually starts by default. Check your running processes:

bash-2.05a$ ps ax
  PID TT   STAT      TIME COMMAND
30553 ??  Is      2:28.19 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)

If you truly do NOT want to run a MTA, you will have to turn it off in the system config.

Also, remember that MTA <> MUA (i.e. running a MTA has nothing to do with a mail server, really, .. the mail server is normally the MUA like pop3, IMAP, etc.).

        Lee

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