Re: Setting up SMTP for outbound mail only

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I forgot to ask. would it be advisable to block inbound traffic on port 25 at the firewall if I am only going to be sending email from this server?

Of course.

An outbound gateway is under no obligation to accept inbound connections.

It is obliged to pass the PTR-HELO-A roundtrip configuration test, of course.

--Sandy



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Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
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