Mail relaying must be restricted.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000382

SV-50423r2_rule Mail relaying must be restricted.

Vulnerability discussion

This ensures "postfix" accepts mail messages (such as cron job reports) from the local system only, and not from the network, which protects it from network attack.

Check content

If the system is an authorized mail relay host, this is not applicable. Run the following command to ensure postfix accepts mail messages from only the local system: $ grep inet_interfaces /etc/postfix/main.cf If properly configured, the output should show only "localhost". If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the file "/etc/postfix/main.cf" to ensure that only the following "inet_interfaces" line appears: inet_interfaces = localhost

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