Hello,

I noted you have a resource associated with the smtp traffic on the rule you
described, as far as I understand, a resource is used when you have some
sort of extra feature, for example a gateway antivirus that will check mail
before it is passed to the mail server itself, but you do not mentioned
anything about something like that on your message.
To be completely honest with you, I'm not knowledgeable of NG FP3, I've been
working with CP stuff just for 3 years and by the time I started, NG AI R54
was already out, so I don'y really know how FP3 used to manage smtp traffic.
What I can tell you is that if in fact you do NOT have anything extra for
your email and the smtp traffic is supposed to just arrive to your firewall
and from there to your mail server, then you do NOT need any resources
configured on your rule, something like:

SRC                 DST                     Service    Action
Any      <mail server Object>         SMTP      Accept

Should be enough.
Here the "<mail server object>" is in fact the object you should have with
the Mail server's IP address also you must have some sort of NAT rule to
make sure the traffic received by the firewall will be forwarded to your
Mail server, judging by the fact that your current rule has the firewall
itself as the destination, I would say most likely you do not have a public
IP recerved just for a static NAT for this server, but you are using the
same public IP of the firewall, which means that besides the rule above, you
will need to create a manual NAT rule on the NAT tab of your Dashboard
specifiying that when SMTP traffic is received by the firewall on its
external IP, it should be NATed to the IP of the Mail server.

I hope this info helps.

Regards

On 8/4/06, Jason Ebersole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,

I am currently running NG FP3 Enterprise on SecurePlatform. I took a
spare PC and installed NG FP3 and duplicated the configuration by
installing all the same patches and "restoring" from a "backup all"
file, then I upgraded to NGX R61 Pro, not Express or Edge (which went
very well). I then temporarily pulled the production box running NG FP3
and put the test box running NGX in it's place.

Everything seemed to be working fine, including a SecuRemote user a few
states away running an old client, but mail coming in from the outside
would not get through to my Exchange server. Here is how I have NG FP3
configured to get mail to my Exchange Server:

Source      Destination  If Via  Service               Action
Any           firewall         any    smtp->resource   accept

In the smtp->resource:
General tab:
I have the ip address of my internal Exchange Server in the Mail
Delivery Server field.

This config works great in NG FP3. The Tracker Log shows the email
coming into the firewall, but it is being "rejected" for Content
Security by Standard Rule #23, which is my last ANY ANY DROP rule. I
nosed around in the SmartDefense configuration but didn't see anything
obvious, but could easily have missed something being that I was in a
hurry to figure it out (which I didn't) and get the production box back
in place. I'm guessing there is a completely different way to spool mail
on my gateway, then send it to my internal mail server, for NGX R61.

Regards, Jason


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