WHATPORT(10025) whatport.net WHATPORT(10025)
10025

MTA reinjection (post-filter SMTP)

The stripped-down SMTP listener a content filter reinjects already-scanned mail into.

TCP

Description

Also unregistered with IANA. In the standard amavis setup, master.cf runs a second Postfix smtpd on 127.0.0.1:10025 with most checks disabled, and amavis returns clean mail to it via $forward_method='smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025'. Postfix's own FILTER_README documents the same sandwich with a 10025/10026 pair. A probe sees an ordinary Postfix ESMTP banner, which makes the port easy to mistake for a legitimate public MTA.

Exposed to the internet?

Do not expose

This listener deliberately runs with relay restrictions and receive overrides removed so that filtered mail passes unchallenged. Reachable from the internet, it is a literal open relay — bind it to the loopback interface.

Check it yourself

$ printf 'QUIT\r\n' | nc -w 3 127.0.0.1 10025

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