From: Edmundo Carmona <eantoranz@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Iptables for webmail access
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:45:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65aa6af9050927094547a513b7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65aa6af90509270945451b637e@mail.gmail.com>
are you allowing traffic on the lookback interface in input?
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
Remember traffic to localhost will go through OUTPUT, and then will reach INPUT.
On 9/27/05, Alejandro Cabrera Obed <sisdis@tournet.com.ar> wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I have a Linux machine with a webmail server (smtp+imap+http), and I have a
> iptables script in order to protect the host.
>
> By default I deny all the traffic. Then, I enable all new connections
> (--syn) from every hosts (-s 0/0) to ports 25, 80 and 143.
>
> But whern a try to log in via web, I can enter the webmail interface and I
> get a message teling "IMAP timeout".
>
> The connection from the webmail to the imap server is from eth0 to eth0, I
> suposse Im forgetting something like this.....
>
> Can you help me with a iptables rule in order to connect to my imap server
> from the webmail interface, both in a unique machine ???
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
>
> Alejandro
>
>
>
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2005-09-27 16:44 Iptables for webmail access Alejandro Cabrera Obed
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2005-09-27 16:45 ` Edmundo Carmona [this message]
2005-09-28 9:32 ` Jörg Harmuth
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