Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:45:59 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Bennett Hui <bhui@mail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do you close port 587: unknown service? Message-ID: <20001018114559.C9003@gray.westgate.gr> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKCNFGLGFDJGFGEECKECMCEAA.bhui@mail.com>; from bhui@mail.com on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:32:24AM -0700 References: <NDBBKCNFGLGFDJGFGEECKECMCEAA.bhui@mail.com>
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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, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> For my public pgp2 key:
finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr
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