Re: [vps-mail] Separate Mail Server

[Jonathan Duncan <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Godwin Stewart wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:06:49 -0600 (MDT), "Bennett Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On VPS2 it is possible to turn off incoming mail while leaving outgoing
> > mail turned on.
>
> On a VPS1 too. It's simply a question of telling sendmail to listen to port
> 25 on 127.0.0.1 and nothing else.
>
> Of course, you lose the ability to send your own mail through the box like
> this unless you use an alternative port (587 is the standard MSA port).
>
> Another alternative is to blacklist 0.0.0.0/0 and whitelist 127.0.0.0/8.
> Your own SMTP AUTH on port 25 will bypass the blocklist if you want to use
> the box to send your own mail.
>
> Finally, you can leave /etc/mail/local-host-names (or its VPS1 equivalent)
> empty, thus instructing sendmail not to accept mail for any domain locally.

Godwin,

Good information to know.  Thank you, I will stick that in my knowledge 
base.

Jonathan
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