thanks for your reply. how do i turn the firewall on/off?

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 07:07 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 18:44, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
i am going to use my linux server as my smtp server (it and all
workstations are behind a firewall). how do i open port 25?

I think you really are talking about punching a whole in the firewall.
On any distro with a kernel >= 2.4.x, this is done using iptables.
You'll need to learn how to manipulate iptables. For now, just turn off
the firewall altogether. You'll need to modify sendmail's configuration
to allow inbound connections, though.


The port itself is opened by the smtp process itself.  It really has
nothing to do with the firewall, except that the firewall needs to be
told to allow traffic through to that port.  Anyway just a terminology
correction.

Michael



or any ports for that matter?



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