BM SMTP proxy problem

Question

Hi anyone left in this forum. I am trying to setup and SMTP proxy. We have moved our GWIA from the BM server to an internal GW 8.0.2 server and I wish to proxy the SMTP traffic at the BM server. The problem is that GWIA is not connecting to the SMTP proxy to retrieve the stored incoming email. Looking at the proxy console screens, it looks like the SMTP proxy is binding to all IPs on the BM server, both public and private, and all secondary addresses too.
Not really sure how to fix this. If anyone has experience with this, please post your suggestions. Thanks, Chris.

Answer 1

On 31/03/12 14:36, cmosentine wrote:
>
> Yes you are correct. But none-the-less gwia was not seeing any
> connection attempts from the smtp proxy. The incoming smtp traffic was
> getting to the smtp proxy (on the public interface) fine - I could see
> the stats increasing, but the smtp proxy was not forwarding it it across
> to the private interface and onto gwia. That is where I get stuck.
>
> Here is a brief description of my setup:
> BM server - GR19: public interface x.x.x.62 private interface
> 10.1.1.19
> GW server with GWIA - GR12 IP 10.1.1.12
> Our mail domain dns points to x.x.x.62
>
> SMTP proxy setup on x.x.x.62 with internal IPs set to 10.1.1.12
>
> Filters:
> smtp incoming src: int: public - ports: any (host: postini service)
> dst: public - ports: 25 (except incoming smtp traffic)
> smtp outgoing src: int: public - ports: 25 dst: public - ports: any
> (host: postini service) (reply to incoming smtp traffic)
> smtp send src: private - ports: 25 dst: public - ports: any
> stateful (send outgoing smtp traffic from internal gwia)
>
> The above filters where taken from from Criag Johnson's BM book and
> they are the exact same that we use when we have GWIA on the BM server,
> so I know they work fine.
>
>
Take a lan trace to see if smtp proxy tries to establish the connection
with gwia agent and if you have access control rules, disable it when
testing as it may be a rule issue.