Forgot to mention that on previous posts: On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Eliran wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 12:17:12PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002, Eliran wrote about "Unknown Ports": > > Here is the output of netstat --inet -an -p > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:515 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN >647/lpd Waiting > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1021/X > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:113 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN >605/identd > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN >932/master > > > > > > I need port 113 and 25 open, about the printer daemon... I need it to > > ... > > > Port 25 is important for my mail, and I need it too. > > > > Are you sure you need port 25 open? Why? Are you trying to run a mail > > *server* on your machine? > > I know sendmail is problematic, I searched bugtraq and packetstorm for >exploits/holes/bugs > in my current sendmail 8.11.2-14 > "master" is probably postfix and certainly not sendmail. postfix hasn't had too many holes in recent years (although I remember one security update, and in the last year) [please avoid qmail flames now, qmail is not on the redhat install CD] Installing a mail server on a workstation is not such a bad idea, if you want to queue outgoing mail, or handle mail fetch with fetchmail. But there is no need for you to listen on any iterface. In postfix's configuration you can define (IIRC): inet_interfaces = localhost to listen on localhost alone BTW: as much as I like postfix, I'm not please with the (lack of) user control of messages in the queue. This probably means that postfix may not be the optimal server for simple home users (even though it is quite simple to install) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
