Well, it sill stop postfix from listening to anything other then the localhost for submissions therefore preventing external (to the machine) submissions.
When you are done, just remove 127.0.0.1: from in front of the smtp statement. Gary ________________________________________ From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of truth_seeker_3...@yahoo.com [truth_seeker_3...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:39 AM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Stop accepting mails from clients but process the mails which is already in the queue??? Thanks for the reply... but mine is postfix-2.3.3-2 . so i want to do like what Gary smith was advicing ??? Gary, will it effect my system in any way? please suggest... -- --- Always try to find truth!!! --- On Tue, 6/9/09, Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote: > From: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> > Subject: Re: Stop accepting mails from clients but process the mails which is > already in the queue??? > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 6:28 PM > * Truth Seeker <truth_seeker_3...@yahoo.com>: > > > > > > Dear Pros, > > > > how can i stop accepting mails on postfix server from > all my clients > > but at the same time, i want to postfix to complete > the tasks in the > > queue. > > With 2.6.x > > postconf -e master_service_disable=inet > postfix reload > > -- > Ralf Hildebrandt > Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung > Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 > http://www.computerbeschimpfung.de > This is the first age that's paid much attention to the > future, which is > a little ironic since we may not have one. > -- Arthur Clarke >
