Re: [cobalt-developers] Shutting down SMTP

["Tom A. Cox" <tomc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shutting down sendmail is probably not a good idea since so many administrative
and cron functions use it.  You could configure around it, but what a pain
that would be.  Why don't you just cut of access from the outside with a
firewall rule?

/sbin/ipchains -A input -p tcp -i eth1 -s 0/0 -d 0/0 25 -j REJECT

Tom Cox

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> To All,
> 
> This past weekend, we had an individual hack into our email server (we use 
> a RAQ3) and send out a mass email.  Since none of our clients use our 
> server as an outgoing mail service (our SMTP), we would like to shut it 
> down.  We are new at this therefore we do not know how to turn it off.
> 
> My question has two parts:
> 	1)  If we shut down the SMTP,, even though no one uses it, would it have 
> an effect on our sites??
> 
> 	2) How do we shut it down??
> 
> Thanx,
> <<Eric>>
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