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    Simple firewall question - Email

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    • J
      johnvan
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      I hadn't even heard of pfSense or the possibility of turning a computer into a router until two days ago. My D-link router was constantly crashing when I used bitorrent and after some googling I stumbled upon this. I went out the next day on the hunt for an old computer and by luck picked up a P3 1ghz with 384mb of ram with 2 ethernet ports for $39. Installation and setup was super easy and it's working amazing. The only minor glitch is I can check my email but I am often getting an error that it couldn't connect to the authentication server. My email provider uses ports 25  and 995.  Do I need to create any special firewall rules, is this what is causing my problem?

      Thanks.

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      • GruensFroeschliG
        GruensFroeschli
        last edited by

        No special rules needed.

        What you describe sounds like some kind of MTU error or similar.
        What messages do you get in the system log?
        (Status –> System Logs)

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          johnvan
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          There is nothing in the system logs whatsoever. I'm glad I checked though, I left a port open for bittorrent even though I wasn't using it, it showed about 40 different hits on that port last night. I don't know if anything got through though??

          Evolution mai has always worked great. I leave my desktop on 24/7 and it automatically checks for new emails at a regular interval. If I manually hit send/receive it's fine. It seems that during one of it's automatic checks something is going wrong because when I open my computer in the morning, rather than have a bunch of new emails, I have a password prompt with this message:
          unable to connect to POP server pophm.sympatico.ca Error sending password: -ERR authentication server unavailable.
          Encryption is SSL and port is 995.
          I never saw this until I installed pfSense so I think it must be related. MTU is 1492 and I am using pppoe, same value as my previous router.
          Thanks

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