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Re: Firewall blocks email - help!

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From: Jon Grieve
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:00
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Miles,

First, I don't think you can IP addresses for the punt cluster, as they may
change.  However, for testing, this should work for the interim.

So, what mail server are you using?  Exchange?  Is it running on another
machine 'behind' Proxy?

Jon




"Miles Gaynor" <mg@castlehoward.co.uk> wrote in message
news:E604B4DA88E0D311B6A2009027E0197E099060@SBSSERVER...
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am trying to receive email through MS Proxy 2.0 from demon but when I
> enable IP filtering I don't receive any email. I have made several
> filters with  port 25 as smtp and the remote host as one of demons mail
> servers (I think I have covered all of demons mail server IPs) but no
> joy.
>
> Also, If I connect and ask Demon help to do a mail kick while I am still
> connected, the mail comes in fine so it seems that demon don't recognise
> me when I have dialed up. Does anyone know how this could be solved so
> that I can have my firewall active but receive mail from demon?
>
> I did try opening the Ident port, but with no joy (but I'm not to clear
> on how this one works)
>
> TIA
> Miles
>
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