The easiest option would be to disable the listener on port 25/tcp. **Postfix** users disable the listener by commenting the following line (starting with `smtp` or `25`) in `/etc/postfix/master.cf`: ``` #smtp inet n - - - - smtpd ``` Furthermore, to relay over a dockerized mailcow, you may want to add `172.22.1.1` as relayhost and remove the Docker interface from "inet_interfaces": ``` postconf -e 'relayhost = 172.22.1.1' postconf -e "mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128" postconf -e "inet_interfaces = loopback-only" ``` "172.22.1.1" is the mailcow created network gateway in Docker. Relaying over this interface is necessary (instead of - for example - relaying directly over ${MAILCOW_HOSTNAME}) to relay over a known internal network. Restart Postfix after applying your changes.