On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Bjørn Ruberg <bj...@ruberg.no> wrote:
> Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > >> MountainX wrote: >> >> >>> I only want my local machine to be able to send email out. I won't want >>> to >>> receive email. >>> >>> >> [...] > > >> Postfix listens for all connections on inet_interfaces. >> >> The easiest, and best, way is to block these in your Linux firewall >> >> > > An even easier alternative is to let Postfix listen to localhost only, by > adding "127.0.0.1:" in front of the "smtp" configuration setting in > master.cf, so that it says something like this: > > 127.0.0.1:smtp inet n - - - - smtpd > > That way it will not be directly reachable from the outside. > > -- > Bjørn > OK, I did this too. (In addition to setting inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 in main.cf.) I'll do the firewall too if I can easily do it via webmin.
