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    Posted: 15 October 2003 at 5:10pm

I must have done something wrong.....
My mailserver runs on the same machine as Spamfilter but on another port (250)
When I send a mail from outside the network to a local user it works, but when I send a mail to another adres it is blocked, should I leave my local domains empty orso ??

- rejected - no relay allowed or % found in FROM address

I don't seem to receive my mail on port 25 as it should...
I left the IP on listening socket empty so it should receive, and it listens on 25 like my mailserver used to do ....

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I've been reading lots of posts now and on the looks of it, Spamfilter is only for receiving mail and cannot be used for sending mails.

This is my situation,

Internet ---> Firewall/Router ---> SPAMfilter/VPOP3 mailserver

I now have port 25 forwarded to SPAMfilter on port 25 and vpop3 listening on 250.
Now if I'm correct this would be wrong because my clients send there mail on 25, so I would be better of forwarding to 250 and keeping my mailserver on 25.
Is this correct ?

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Norman,

You are correct, SpamFilter is designed to handle incoming email only. Outgoing email should still be processed by your existing SMTP server.

There are several ways to configure the email flow to accomodate your environment:

Internet ---> Firewall/Router ---> SPAMfilter -->VPOP3 mailserver

The simplest solution, if the firewall allows it, is the following.

Configure your firewall to accept internet email traffic on port 25, and have it perform port translation to pass it on to SpamFilter on a different port, say 26.
Configure SpamFilter to listen on port 26, which will allow it to accept email coming from the firewall. Have SpamFilter forward email to port 25 on your existing SMTP server
Leave your SMTP server's configuration unchanged, always listening on the same IP your customers have and on port 25. This way no users will have to make any changes, and they will still use your existing SMTP server for their outgoing email.

This would be the email flow:

Internet (25) --> Firewall -- (26) --> SpamFilter --(25)--> Your SMTP server

Most non-home-style firewalls should be able to perform the port translation required.

If the above is not an option, bind two different IPs to the NIC on your server. Again do not alter your existing SMTP configuration, and have SpamFilter listen on port 25 of the 2nd IP address. Then have your firewall forward email traffic (to port 25) on that 2nd IP. SpamFilter will then forward it to the IP of your SMTP server. In this way too no users will have to make any changes, and they will still use your existing SMTP server for their outgoing email.

If that also is not an option.. well, you could add your own class C's that the users are on to the whitelist in SpamFilter, so they will be allowed to relay using SpamFilter.

Roberto F.
LogSat Software

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