Question about IP forwarding SMTP and using SPAMD
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Hello,
I am a new user who used to work a lot with PIX firewalls and I am finding PFsense much to my liking. Congratulations to all who make this great project.
I am using version 1.2RC2 on the embedded platform. I have three nics in this tiny little box. The WAN interface has a public IP and I use private address space for the LAN and DMZ(opt1) interfaces. Inside my DMZ subnet I have a mail server (Linksys SLUG). I forward all SMTP traffic coming to the public IP to the mail server and thing are working fine.
Here is what I would like to do:
1. Install SPAMD on the firewall and have it do its magic….
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My questions:
1. Since all SMTP gets forwarded to my mailserver will SPAMD have a chance to do its job?
2. I have not seen any How To's on how to install the SPAMD package on the embedded platform?Thanks to anyone who can help or give some advice,
Pedro
Granada Spain -
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No - you'd need to ensure that the SMTP is forwarded to SMAPD
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If you read the fine documentation you'll discover that packages are not supported on embedded. More to the point, spamd isn't a pfSense package so installing it is completely non-supported.
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OK,
So am I to understand that if I use the embedded platform I have to use it "as is" because if I try installing any packages I will most likely break something?
What is it about the embedded platform that makes it different from a hard drive install?
By the way I have tried to find documentation on this site that could spell out the differences but the FAQ seems broken and the other documentation points to MonoWall documetation where I wasnt able to find out much on packages.
I appreciate the help very much,
P.
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Embedded is designed for installing onto solid state memory (compact flash etc). There used to be a good primer, but it seems to be gone :(