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    Spamhause Blacklist & Port 25 traffic

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      mrpfsense
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      Recently, over the last three weeks were have been placed on the spamhause blacklist. Spamhause is suggesting port 25 is leaking traffic.

      If spamhause is correct:

      1. how do i monitor or trace what traffic (specifically on port 25) is leaving the pfsense server?
      2. how do i configure pfsense to only allow traffic on port 25 from one server?

      Thanks for your help.

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        SteveITS Galactic Empire @mrpfsense
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        @mrpfsense
        (don't do this but)
        1 ) on LAN add a firewall rule that passes port 25 outbound to any and logs it.

        instead do:
        2a) on LAN allow port 25 outbound from the one server IP, and
        2b) second rule after 2a: on LAN block port 25 outbound and log it

        If spam is being sent that implies a PC is infected. Alternately Spamhaus has other lists like the policy list were the ISP reports it shouldn't be sending mail at all...often set for DHCP IPs.

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