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    Is it possible to have one more e-mail in the firewall notifications?

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      thenge @johnpoz
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      @johnpoz I have an account with a provider called hostgator and I am sending to two different providers. One gmail and another LocaWeb. Gmail works when alone, but when I enter the two destination emails it shows the error.

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        SteveITS Galactic Empire @thenge
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        @thenge To avoid ubiquitous spam, SMTP servers make you log in, before they will send out email. Email to the same server is allowed because that would be incoming email anyway. To send to a third party you need to log in.

        https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en
        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/111569/howto-notifications-with-gmail-smtp

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          provels @SteveITS
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          @SteveITS Then how do I send to my cell's txt on @txt.att.net from gmail? For that matter, how could you send to any address not on your mail server?

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            provels @johnpoz
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            @johnpoz RE: Multiple addresses with comma, that's what I did for years, then it stopped working. Dunno.

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              SteveITS Galactic Empire @provels
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              @provels said in Is it possible to have one more e-mail in the firewall notifications?:

              how could you send to any address not on your mail server

              By authenticating.
              https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en

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                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @provels
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                @provels said in Is it possible to have one more e-mail in the firewall notifications?:

                then it stopped working. Dunno.

                I works here, just tested it. More than happy to test it with my 2.7 or 2.6 vms..

                You sure your authing, you don't need to auth if your sending to the mail server the mail is sent too.

                @thenge hasn't shown how he has notifications setup in pfsense.

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                  thenge @johnpoz
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                  @johnpoz Configure it this way:

                  configemailfw.png

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                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @thenge
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                    @thenge well clearly your not "authing" to it.. Since there is no password set.. So no sane email service would let you send mail to other domains without validating its you.

                    noauth.jpg

                    If they did that would be an open relay - and they would be sending just spam all day long, etc.

                    edit: the only time you use to be able to get away with sending mail without auth was if you were using your isp smtp server, and the only way to talk to it was you were on the isp network. But that pretty much went away as well many moons ago. I am not aware of any isp that allows that to happen any more even.

                    See before my gmail app passwords, the one labeled pfsense, that is the password that is here

                    password.jpg

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                      thenge @johnpoz
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                      @johnpoz My friend, it worked out great. Thank you very much!

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                        provels @johnpoz
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                        @johnpoz Oh, I believe you. All I can say is it stopped working for me. I thought Comcast had blacklisted me because sometimes when I'm futzing around I create a flood of alerts, sending one to Comcast, one to Outlook.com and one to ATT.net. IIRC, there were instructions on the notifications page previously saying to use commas and no spacing between addresses. ๐Ÿคท No problema.

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