On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 06:08:11PM -0400, John Levine via Postfix-users 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> It appears that devonmors--- via Postfix-users <[email protected]> said:
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> >Can Postfix be tweaked to hide being identified {not the version} by Nmap 
> >scans?
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> I'd guess that changing the mail_name configuration parameter would do it.  
> Perhaps:
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>  mail_name = "Zarafa"
> 
> R's,
> John

I use the following to do this:

  smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP

Without it, the bit where I have it saying "ESMTP"
would be "ESMTP Postfix".

Nmap still knows that it's Postfix, but it takes much longer
to work it out (26.8s rather than 0.5s).

cheers,
raf

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