From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 1:46:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gray.westgate.gr (gray.westgate.gr [212.205.119.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8C037B4CF for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 01:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by gray.westgate.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9I8jxH09350; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:45:59 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:45:59 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Bennett Hui Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do you close port 587: unknown service? Message-ID: <20001018114559.C9003@gray.westgate.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bhui@mail.com on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:32:24AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:32:24AM -0700, Bennett Hui wrote: > > It would be great if anyone knew what port 587 was used for (it just > came with my install of 4.1.1-RELEASE), but more importantly how can > I close it off. I suppose the quick and easy way would be to block > it off with ipfw, but is there a line in a config file where I can > disable this service? It's the MSA port of Sendmail, documented in the usual place, i.e. /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README. You can see the following in your sendmail.cf file: O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E and you can close it if you like with: FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, For my public pgp2 key: finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message