Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-26 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
: When local processes want to mail, they fork n exec a sendmail binary : themselves. : : You shouldn't need a sendmail server running for that. Here is what I have/had in rc.conf #sendmail_enable=no #sendmail_submit_enable=no #sendmail_outbound_enable=no #sendmail_msp_queue_enable=no And as

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-26 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 14:27, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : When local processes want to mail, they fork n exec a sendmail binary : themselves. : : You shouldn't need a sendmail server running for that. Here is what I have/had in rc.conf #sendmail_enable=no #sendmail_submit_enable=no

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-26 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 26 May 2004 13:27:07 +0100 Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : When local processes want to mail, they fork n exec a sendmail binary : themselves. : : You shouldn't need a sendmail server running for that. Here is what I have/had in rc.conf #sendmail_enable=no

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-25 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:10:16PM -0400, JJB wrote: : The log-in-vain feature is an good thing to keep. In your case it is Okay, I'll put it back, then. : The other post about firewall rules has nothing to do with your : problem. The poster just did not recognize the messages as coming : from

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-25 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:50:17AM -0400, JJB wrote: : The messages you are getting are generated from the log-in-vain : option you have turned on. Every night when the cron management : reports run they post email from root to root using the 127.0.0.1 If I disable this 'feature' and adjust my

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:29:57PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: This is probably a simple question with a simple answer, but I wasn't sure where to look. I recently installed a deny-all firewall and everything is working fine. However, I keep getting /kernel log messages about attempts

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
From: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is probably a simple question with a simple answer, but I wasn't sure where to look. I recently installed a deny-all firewall and everything is working fine. However, I keep getting /kernel log messages about attempts to connect to port 25.

Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall

2004-05-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-05-24 08:49, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is probably a simple question with a simple answer, but I wasn't sure where to look. [snip] You should allow all traffic on your loopback device by default. Much like this