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Firewall Doesn't Block Email?

zburns
So I have a drop rule in the #1 spot - if anything comes from/to an IP address range - I don't care what type of connection it is - I want it to drop.

For some reason I'm still getting emails from those IP address ranges - how can I truly stop the connection from even happening?

See my setup as shown in the images...





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    hi,

    you run the smtp-proxy... so mails are processed by the smtp-daemon and will be processed and did not come to the firewall-process..

    You can try host/network blacklist under SMTP/Relaying but i think this will not work as expected.

    Create a DNAT-Rule which DNATs the "Hackers" List to an IP-Adress which is not existent in your LAN.. then create an firewall-rule which drops that traffic.
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    Hackers? Aren't those real linked.in mails?
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    Morning zburns,

    The reason that the SMTP proxy is catching the emails is because there's an order of precedence to what parts of the system see traffic first.

    BAlfson's Rule #2 ( rulz ) explains this in more detail but basically proxies trump firewall rules.