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Subject: Re: Sendmail opening Port 587 ?
From: dyer (phil.dyerMINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 06:27:31 CDT


Michael Bellears wrote:

> I'm running Deb. 2.2, and have just installed Sendmail 8.9.3-23 to find it
> has opened port 587?
>
> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:587 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
> 203/sendmail: accep
> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
> 203/sendmail: accep
>
> Is this normal??
>

Michael,
From Sendmail release docs:

"sendmail implements RFC 2476 (Message Submission), e.g., it
can now listen on several different ports.Use:
O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA, Port=587, M=E
to run a Message Submission Agent (MSA); this is turned on by
default in m4-generated .cf files; it can be turned off with
FEATURE(`no_default_msa')."

hth
dyer