On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 20:26, Jay Lee wrote:
>      Right now, our organization's firewall blocks all outgoing
> connections to port 25 except directly from the mail server.  Our
> mail server supports authenticated relaying and SMTP-SSL on port 465
> so this is not a problem in 99.9% of the cases.  The majority of port
> 25 outgoing traffic not coming from our mailserver then is an
> occassional laptop infected with a virus.  Blocking port 25 prevents
> the virus from spreading.  However, it also means the occassional
> visitor is not able to connect back to their ISP's SMTP server if the
> ISP doesn't support something like SMTP-SSL (465) or port 587 sending
>  (which every ISP worth a hoot should do IMHO).
> 
>      What I'd like to do is configure a transparent SMTP proxy on port 25
> of the firewall that send the outgoing message through ClamAV,
> allowing only clean messages to pass.  User's wouldn't notice
> anything when they send out messages via port 25 but viruses would
> not get out (and admin notification of the offending IP wouldn't be
> hard either).  Is anyone aware of a SMTP proxy that is capable of
> this?  I believe the transparent proxy part would be configurable
> with Linux and IPTables.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Jay

why not let the firewall redirect everything on port 25 && ! from the
mailserver to the mailserver?

tinus 

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