Port to use in MTA when communicating with mail filter ?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Fri Oct 28 08:12:06 UTC 2005


Le jeudi 27 octobre 2005 à 17:37 -0400, Daniel J Walsh a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using postfix with the amavid-new spam/virus mail filter. In this
> > type of configuration the MTA sends every processed mail to the filter
> > daemon on one port, and receives the result of the filtering on another.
> > The online documentation is not too clear, but the commonly used ports
> > seem to be on the 10024-10026 range. In my setup the MTA listens on port
> > 10026 and the filter on port 10025.
>   
> Looks like these ports are used by amavisd
> portcon tcp 10024 system_u:object_r:amavisd_recv_port_t
> portcon tcp 10025 system_u:object_r:amavisd_send_port_t
> 
> And reading policy states that postfix can listen on the send port.
> 
> Are you seeing any avc messages?

Ok, thanks, I have an old amavisd install that pre-dates FE packaging,
and the amavisd/postfix doc proposed both 10024/10025 and 10025/10026
ports as good setup choices.

Since Fedora chose 10024/10025, I'll do the same here.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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