Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Ow Mun Heng um 4:02: > Again.. to recap. > you don't have sendmail running on port 25? No, the MTA is listening on port 25 for connections by other MTAs. > You have sendmail's MSA running on port 587. That is the standard port for it - see "grep 587 /etc/services". > How is your email client configured? > Outgoing emails are sent to the MSA, which in turn relays it out to the > ISP's mail-relay? My server has a static IP and has valid DNS entries (forward and reverse) and this way the usage of a smart host is not necessary. > All this while, port 25 is not used at all? How do you get your mails > then? You pop/IMAP them? See above, it is used. > I personally pop them from my server using fetchmail, pass them to the > local sendmail on port 25 for spam/clamav scanning before being > delivered locally. Such a scenario is valid for home use. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 04:18:25 up 8 days, 57 users, load average: 0.42, 0.54, 1.25
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