Squirrelmail and IPTables

CodeHeads codeheads at gmail.com
Fri May 26 17:57:46 UTC 2006


On Fri, 26 May 2006 08:31:09 +0100 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:59 -0400, CodeHeads wrote:
> > I just reconfigured IPTables to accept connections for all known mail
> > ports. My problem is when sending through squirrelmail it says temporary
> > problem.  Now it worked before I implemented IPTable rules so I am assuming
> > it is a IPTables entry that is needed.
> > 
> > Basically it needs to except from localhost, am I right??
> > 
> > Is this what I need to enter into IPTables so that squirrelmail can send
> > mail? iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 --sport 25 -j ACCEPT
> 
> Surely it's the destination port that will be 25, not the source port?
> And if you want to limit access to localhost, you'll need to specify
> that too, and not "everywhere" (0/0) as in the line above.
> 
> Paul.
> 

Thanks Paul.  I found the problem to be with clamav.  not iptables, so I
removed that entry.  

Will
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