>Basically I closed all ports from the Internet to the DMZ say 25, 80, 110, 
>and 443.

Basically, I think you mean "opened".

>This seemed to work fine. Email was going from user-to-user and coming 
>from the internet to us. However, email would not go out.

SMTP clients ask the OS to supply a random tcp port above 1024, for sending 
mail.  Have you opened Imail's ip for outbound from ports >1023?

>  The log showed that our sever was talking to theirs but delivery failed. 
> Here is an excerpt:
>
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) D:\IMail\spool\Qe5b703c.SMP
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) processing D:\IMail\spool\Qe5b703c.SMP
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) Trying ci.akron.oh.us (0)
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) Connect ci.akron.oh.us [204.210.174.26:25] (1)

ok, so Imail is connecting is spite of your firewall!  :))

>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) 220 Welcome to COA email
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) >EHLO cssbehavioral.org
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) 500 Unknown command
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) >HELO domain.com
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) 250 Hello domain.com, pleased to meet you
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) >MAIL 
>FROM:<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) 250 
><<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender ok
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) >RCPT 
>To:<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) 250 
><<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient ok
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) >DATA
>03:27 10:36 SMTP-(00000158) 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>03:27 10:37 SMTP-(00000158) s: s

ah, search the list archives and KB for "s: s". it's a bug in Imail log 
writing.

>03:27 10:37 SMTP-(00000158) Trying aol.com (0)

03:27 10:37 SMTP-(00000158) rdeliver aol.com multiple (2) 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 222725
>03:27 10:37 SMTP-(00000158) >QUIT

send to aol OK

>  I ended up having to re-open all ports on the firewall to get mail to go 
> to the internet.

>Now that the history lesson is over, here is my question What ports and/or 
>sub ports do I need open on the firewall for IMail to work properly?

ingress:  tcp on port 25 for receiving

egress:  tcp on port > 1024  for sending

and make both "stateful"

Len

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