[waffffffle]

This has me a little worried. Is there an smtp server running on my PowerBook? I know that Macs include sendmail but I'm certainly not using it. It keeps trying to connect to my ISP's smtp server on port 25. It first wanted to connect to a different server (belonging to my ISP ) on UDP port 53 and I allowed it (not knowing what to do) but now that it looks like its trying to send mail, I'm not so sure I know what to do.

Could me computer have become compromised and now is being used to send spam? I doubt that the infamous rootkit was used because Little Snitch is still running and that rootkit supposedly kills it. I can't seem to find the location of this smtp program. Typing "ps -ax | grep smtp" in the terminal gives me:

29946 ?? S 0:00.03 smtp -t unix -u

so that shows me nothing about the location of the smtp server. "locate smtp" also gives me no smtp processes (so it seems). So I'm a bit worried.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Diggory Laycock]

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archiv...p/t-17139.html

[brachiator]

Thanks, Diggory. Am I correct in understanding then that because postfix is "watching" by default for traffic to the mailserver, if I were to specify localhost as my SMTP server in Mail then postfix would catch the traffic, start SMTP and correctly route the mail?

Thanks.
Mike

[entrox]

Port 53 UDP is DNS - no harm from that.

[Diggory Laycock]

Originally posted by brachiator:
Thanks, Diggory. Am I correct in understanding then that because postfix is "watching" by default for traffic to the mailserver, if I were to specify localhost as my SMTP server in Mail then postfix would catch the traffic, start SMTP and correctly route the mail?

Thanks.
Mike

Don't know, I got the answer by googling "smtp -t unix -u"

- I'd use Postfix enabler to get local smtp

[waffffffle]

Thanks, I actually found a Postfix monitoring program that showed me that there was one message in the queue, so I let Little Snitch let it go. I think it was cron sending me an email actually. Very strange.