[Gllug] PostFix

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Fri Dec 14 15:20:02 UTC 2001


On Friday 14 December 2001 14:05, you wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to make PostFix listen on a different port
> > than 25?
>
> Edit the master.cf file and change the line beginning
>
>         smtp inet
>
> to
>
>         10025 inet
>
> (assuming you want port 10025).
Thanks. Where was that hidden?
> > I am trialling the new SMTP email anti-virus product from Sophos
> > which listens on port 25 and proxies to your regular MTA after
> > stripping the attachments and scanning them first. But I want to
> > put them both on the same machine if possible which means
> > shifting the PostFix listen port out of the way so that clients
> > connect to the scanner instead of the MTA directly. Can't find it
> > in the docs :(
>
> My experience of virus-scanning proxies is that they are poor at
> the basic smtp.  So I prefer to use a content filter.  That way
> postfix handles both incoming and outgoing, passing them through
> the filter (an smtp process on the same or other host) for the
> virus-scanning.  I can provide details if you're interested.
Yes please!!
Steve.
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