Email server behind pfSense
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Dear all,
I am very new at pfSense. We used Fortigate 100A previously. Now we have configured a pfSense. But we couldn't able to configure our email server appropriately. As a result I need your help.
The configuration info are given below:Internal Email Server IP: 10.10.1.5
Email Server IP: 94.55.x.x
pfSense External IP: 94.54.x.xThanks in advance for the assistance.
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You need to provide a little more info… :)
Do you have more than 1 WAN IP?
Are you using the WAN IP for only this server?
And you might include the other server I just noticed in your other post. Since this is the same subject, can you please keep it all in one place?? Thanks! ;)
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This is the Network you can find in the attachment.
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You still haven't answered the question.. You say your WAN IP is 94.54, but then your email is 94.55
So you own 2 class B? Has your ISP routed multiple segments to you? They gave you disjointed multiple IPs?
Or is that just a typo??
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If you have valid ips on pfsense as well on servers, you do not need nat, just need firewall rules.
If your email server runs windows, I suggest you to take a look at postfix forwarder package to protect you mail system.
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Thanks marcelloc,
I will try to use postfix forwarder package. What can I use as anti-spam with postfix?
I tried with Firewall rules for the ports IMAP, POP3 and SMTP individually defining them but when mails sent from the it shows that the mail server ip was not 94.55.x.x instead it took the firewall ip as 94.54.x.x. How can I solve the problem.
If I create the virtual ip with the External email server ip 94.55.x.x and then make individually port forwarding for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP will it work? what do you think?
Thanks for your advice.
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johnpoz,
The ISP provided a 16 block of IP for using our servers from same block and gave 1 ip from another block for our firewall. This situation was predefined.
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I will try to use postfix forwarder package. What can I use as anti-spam with postfix?
postfix package has a lot of antispam features but you can install mailscanner package too.
I tried with Firewall rules for the ports IMAP, POP3 and SMTP individually defining them but when mails sent from the it shows that the mail server ip was not 94.55.x.x instead it took the firewall ip as 94.54.x.x. How can I solve the problem.
to use firewall ip as mx, you will need nat or postfix forwarder package
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"to use firewall ip as mx, you will need nat or postfix forwarder package"
I need mail server ip (94.55.x.x) as mx. In this case is it possible to configure it from postfix package?
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"to use firewall ip as mx, you will need nat or postfix forwarder package"
I need mail server ip (94.55.x.x) as mx. In this case is it possible to configure it from postfix package?
postfix will use server address, if you have 94.55. IP on pfsense, it will work
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Dear marcelloc,
Don't mind. Actually I am very new in pfSense. What do you mean by 94.55.x.x ip in pfSense? My WAN IP is 94.54.x.x and my internal mail server configured as 10.10.1.5. Domain MX record is on 94.55.x.x and I want to send and receive mail through 94.55.x.x
I checked the postfix forwarder option that takes the Domain name and ip. If I put the domain name and ip (94.55.x.x) there will it work?
Thanks for your help.
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nahid,
You network diagram shows internal and external ips on your mail server. If this ip is an alias on your pfsense, you just need to configure this alias to postfix forwarder and make an outbound nat (firewall -> nat) to force exchange outgoing ip address to be the same as mx.
att,
Marcello Coutinho -
Thanks Marcello Coutinho.
I will do exactly what you have told on Saturday.
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Marcello,
How can I configure an aliases in postfix forwarder? Is it the domain where I can give the aliases ip address or something else?
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Marcello,
How can I configure an aliases in postfix forwarder? Is it the domain where I can give the aliases ip address or something else?
on domain tab you specify internal domains as well internal ips.
do you mean domain aliases like mydomain.com and domain2.com?
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Dear marcelloc,
I tried how you told to configure it but could able to send email as it marked the wan IP address as spam. I inspected the email headers and it showed that the email was sent from ip address 94.54.x.x what is not my email server ip.
I configured the outbound nat but it failed to send over Email Server IP
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Using you internal mail server only and having you mx IP as an alias on your pfsense, an outbound nay should work. Remember to configure outbound Nat mode to manual.
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Dear Marcelloc,
Attached picture where you can find my config. Is there any mistakes there?
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Change interface to wan and place rule on top
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Dear marcelloc,
I tried how you instructed but unsuccessful. Is there any way to solve this problem?
