Ensure Mail Transfer Agent is not Listening on any non-loopback Address
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Description
Mail Transfer Agents (MTA), such as sendmail and Postfix, are used to
listen for incoming mail and transfer the messages to the appropriate
user or mail server. If the system is not intended to be a mail server,
it is recommended that the MTA be configured to only process local mail.
Rationale
The software for all Mail Transfer Agents is complex and most have a
long history of security issues. While it is important to ensure that
the system can process local mail messages, it is not necessary to have
the MTA’s daemon listening on a port unless the server is intended to
be a mail server that receives and processes mail from other systems.
