Mercurial > masqmail
changeset 206:0241aaccfcdb
default listen_addresses: use 127.0.0.1 instead of `localhost'
because `localhost' could be bound to some other IP address.
This is unlikely but could be. Using 127.0.0.1 is more safe.
See mailing list for details
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:34:40 +0200 (2010-07-16) |
| parents | 4fd237550525 |
| children | dcb315792513 |
| files | INSTALL man/masqmail.conf.5 src/conf.c |
| diffstat | 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Fri Jul 16 16:38:50 2010 +0200 +++ b/INSTALL Sat Jul 17 00:34:40 2010 +0200 @@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ Such a setup (i.e. the default one) does: - deliver mail locally -- accept mail from local (via stdin) -- accept mail on localhost:25 (via SMTP) (if started as daemon) +- accept mail on stdin (plain text) +- accept mail on stdin (SMTP) (if started with -bs) +- accept mail on the local port 25 (SMTP) (if started with -bd) It does not - transfer mail to other machines
--- a/man/masqmail.conf.5 Fri Jul 16 16:38:50 2010 +0200 +++ b/man/masqmail.conf.5 Sat Jul 17 00:34:40 2010 +0200 @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ If your host has different names which resolve to the same IP, use only one of them, otherwise you will get an error message. -Default: \fIlocalhost:25\fR (i.e. only local processes can connect) +Default: \fI127.0.0.1:25\fR (i.e. only local processes can connect) .TP \fBdo_save_envelope_to = \fIboolean\fR
--- a/src/conf.c Fri Jul 16 16:38:50 2010 +0200 +++ b/src/conf.c Sat Jul 17 00:34:40 2010 +0200 @@ -433,7 +433,10 @@ conf.max_msg_size = 0; /* no limit on msg size */ conf.spool_dir = SPOOL_DIR; conf.mail_dir = "/var/mail"; - conf.listen_addresses = g_list_append(NULL, parse_interface("localhost", 25)); + /* we use 127.0.0.1 because `localhost' could be bound to some + other IP address. This is unlikely but could be. Using + 127.0.0.1 is more safe. See mailing list for details */ + conf.listen_addresses = g_list_append(NULL, parse_interface("127.0.0.1", 25)); if ((in = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL) { logwrite(LOG_ALERT, "could not open config file %s: %s\n", filename, strerror(errno));