[ale] Comments sought on port scan

[John Mills]

Jonathan -

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, John Mills wrote:
> > I don't need serve smtp, AFAIK. I run 'fetchmail' as a pop-client to the
> > ISP, putting mail on sendmail locally. Outgoing hits the ISP's SMTP server
> > directly.

> > Where do I turn this off at with regard to net access?
 
> Add the following line to your /etc/sendmail.cf file:
> 
> 0 DaemonPortOptions=Addr=127.0.0.1
Seems to work like a champ. Port no longer seen, and levels of difficulty
up again.

-- 
Regards -
 John Mills

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