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Subject: Re: Some questions on postfix, SUMMARY
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 10:00:05 CST

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:54:48PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> Be very sure that no machine routes incoming mail to those
> machines and that they don't listen on port 25.

Thus, start it:
% /usr/sbin/sendmail -q30m
instead of
% /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m

> It's rather safer to use Postfix as the "null client".

Same goes for Postfix. You have to turn off listening by comment out a line
from master.cf... 

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