Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:53:38 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca> To: Sereciya Kurdistani <sereciya@kurdistan.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick IPFW Question Concerning Sendmail Message-ID: <20030403135048.D92663-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030403182847.GC23675@kurdistan.ath.cx>
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Try allowing access to the sendmail submission port 587/tcp.
I honestly don't know if this will help, but it may be worth a shot.
Steve
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a quick question for you ipfw/firewall experts out there.
>
> I've have set up an elaborate firewall only to have trouble with
> Sendmail.
>
> I have opened port 25 incoming, and also allow outgoing to another
> port 25, but I always find stuck mail when I use "mailq".
>
> Using tcpdump -- and no firewall -- I've found that between the
> dns lookups and smtp connections there are in fact some auth
> lookups too.
>
> I opened incoming port 113 and outgoing to 113 but I still have
> stuck mail!
>
> Any help would be greately appreciated, many thanks in advance!
>
> -Sereciya Kurdistani
>
> PS
> My basic rules look like:
>
> ipfw add NNNN allow \{ tcp or udp \} from any to any smtp,smtps out
> ipfw add NNNN allow \{ tcp \} log from any to any smtp,smtps in
>
> ipfw add NNNN allow \{ tcp or udp \} from any to any auth out
> ipfw add NNNN allow \{ tcp \} log from any to any auth in
>
> and yes, this is ipfw2 on 4.8-STABLE
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