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pfBlockerNG blocks many android apps, how to just unblock gmail app and outlook app for recieving emails?

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    Zist
    last edited by Aug 30, 2019, 3:56 PM

    pfsense with pfBlockerNG is working great, but I noticed that pfBlockerNG blocks many android mobile apps, could anyone help how to just unblock gmail app and outlook app for receiving emails? Thank you in advance.

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      NollipfSense
      last edited by NollipfSense Aug 31, 2019, 5:33 AM Aug 31, 2019, 5:30 AM

      The best way to get the Gmail to work is to ping mail.Google.com to find its IP address Google uses for your region, then add that address to the IP Suppression. Not sure what outlook uses but sure you can find out similarly.

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        dragoangel
        last edited by dragoangel Aug 31, 2019, 8:55 PM Aug 31, 2019, 8:52 PM

        That not pfblockerng blocks apps, this your configuration blocks apps. So logically you need begin from explain at least what you config are: ip lists with floating rules or dnsbl, what you using? The second look to logs of pfblocker ng. In pfblocker there is Alexa top1k++ list exclude checkbox existing - my recommendation enabled it to not broke all like you did

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          NollipfSense @dragoangel
          last edited by Sep 1, 2019, 3:37 AM

          @dragoangel That's my same thoughts as well because when I had setup mine, I didn't have to do anything special to access Google services.

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          pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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