[buug] Blocking sendmail

[Evan Cofsky]

Those look to be outgoing connection attempts which will hang around
until sendmail times out since you are probably dropping outgoing
connection packets.

On 09/18 16:08, Bill Honeycutt wrote:
> Before the catcalls start, let me say that I know that I shouldn't have
> sendmail running when I should be using one of the many perfectly good
> substitutes.
> 
> But I have is running on one machine.  I filter packets such that only
> localhost can connect, all others packets are rejected.  So imagine my
> surprise to see the following in my process status output:
> 
> > ps ax
> >
> >... stuff deleted...
> >
> > 2896 ?     S  0:00 sendmain: ./g8G7DAJ26233 gateway4.worldnet.att.net:
> >
> 
> Yikes!!  All packets from both the localnet and DMZ are disallowed, so
> the question becomes, "has someone found an innovative way to use my
> sendmail daemon?"
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Bill
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Evan Cofsky, President, CEO Pacific Development Group <evan at pacificdev.com>
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