On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:53:38 +1000, Clayton Russell wrote: >On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:41, Nick Boyce wrote: >> Sorry if this is a dumb question ... >> >> I've just set up a "secure" (you know .. more than usual) Debian system, >> and want to arrange things so that it can send mail out when necessary >> (in case anything happens that it thinks I should know about) but is >> *not* constantly listening for incoming mail.
>If you would like to use postfix you can comment out the >smtp inet n - n - - smtpd >line in /etc/postfix/master.cf, which stops the daemon listening on port >25, but does not affect sending mail. Thanks Clayton - that's very useful - I was planning to look at Postfix in due course - it seems to have the best security pedigree of any of the popular MTAs. [Without wanting to start anything religious here :-)] Much obliged Nick -- "Bother", said Pooh, as he struggled with sendmail.cf, "it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here".