You're right I'm not allowing ICMP through the firewall, but Whatsup is
inside the firewall with Imail.
----- Original Message -----
From: Vaughn Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] firewall
> What's Up uses ICMP and TCP, Most Firewalls allow only TCP through on
> standard setup. Try setting What's up to use TCP only and it should be
> happier. Or (less secure) open up ICMP to the Web server.
> -V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] firewall
>
>
> > Actually, I had changed the default port to 80 in web messaging manager
> and
> > it was working inside the firewall. I then decided I would just open 80
to
> > everything. I then started narrowing what could use port 80 and when I
got
> > back to the original configuration web messaging was working outside the
> > firewall. I don't know exactly what happened but its working now on port
> 80
> > through the firewall. Whatsup however still does not see it as a www
> > service.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gregor Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 7:19 PM
> > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] firewall
> >
> >
> > The web interface runs on Port 8383, not the default port of 80. try
> > allowing that port through your firewall.
> >
> > Gregor
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Sheldon
> > Sent: Thursday, 24 June 1999 12:42
> > To: IMail Forum (E-mail)
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] firewall
> >
> >
> > I just put up my firewall and discovered I can't get the web messaging
to
> > work through it. I have setup the web messaging port as 80 so that it
> would
> > be a normal www service. Apparently there is something special about the
> > web interface. If I open the firewall for www for that server it won't
let
> > it pass and Whatsup (an ipswitch network monitoring program) doesn't
> > recognize that it has a www service running either.
> >
> > Any Ideas?
> >
> > Jim Sheldon
> > Texas Communications
> > 409-775-6239
> > http://www.texascom.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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