Hello

Brand new to this list, have used the Fw for a long time w no problems 
except now after I got a new server, accidently put in the Ver6 along with 
this one and it seemed to cause a conflict. I removed 6 as I dont have a 
need for IPV6 right now, and uninstalled shorewall, and reinstalled which 
helped a great deal, except there seems to be an issue where email is 
disappearing when the fw is running, effectng only incoming mail. Port scan 
confirms the rules are working ok and a shorewall check shows no troubles. I 
am using Ubuntu 14 as the OS with Webmin as the gui. The module it has for 
shorewall is very buggy, and right now it wont even find shorewall , so I am 
doing everything on the command prompt. The last thing I did was a purrge 
command, then another install, and the problem seemed fixed, but its back 
again.

I do know when the webmin module was working and I was able to stop the fw 
using that interface, the emails came through ok, but when I went to restart 
the fw, webmin would hang up because I guess the installation was bad or it 
was configured to do that. As it is now when I do a shorewall stop command, 
all the traffic to the server is blocked. I was reading there is a file that 
is suppose to be configured to stop this from happening, but its not in the 
specified etc/shorewall directory. Do I need to create it?

I also remember that I may have had to reinstall postfix a couple of times 
before any of this happened, but I believe if the postfix or other mail 
config was wrong, the mail problem would persist even when the fw is down. 
So I believe this is shorewall related...its been a frustrating issue for a 
while now sending out mail then never getting answers when replies never go 
through. There use to be email bounce messages, but not since the purge.

As I write this now, a couple of test emails I sent came through but 9 
minutes later. I do have greylisting on, but they came in while I had 
executed a shorewall clear command...so I am not sure if everything is 
really ok now, or it was just a coicidence. Argh !

Any assistance or feedback appreciated!

--
Steve
 


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