Re: SMTP port 25

[clemensF]

> David Benfell:

> I'm just finishing a qmail installation on my new server box.
> Any attempt to telnet to port 25 yields "connection refused."  I ran
> both tcp and udp scans on it with nmap; the port is not open.

if you start the tcp server with some tcp protection wrapper that isn't
configured to let local connections (i.e. from 127.0.0.1) pass, you won't
even be admitted from/to your own localhost.

clemens