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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Chris Bagnall <pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc>
wrote:

> On 9/10/14 12:05 pm, Mikey van der Worp wrote:
>
>> Today I have come to you with the question on how to block users from
>> spamming with smtp/25, behind NAT and the IP of PfSense (< NAT). We do not
>> wish/want to block the entire SMTP traffic in the private range to the
>> world, because there are important clients behind the pfSense, who actually
>> behave normally, we thought about forcing all the SMTP traffic to be
>> redirected trough the pfsense machine, so it can be scanned/blocked. (even
>> when the user decides not to do this and want to use their own SMTP server).
>>
>
> I'd have to caution *against* doing the above. Many people have their mail
> clients set to use TLS for outbound mail (quite sensibly), and that will
> invariably break if you try to intercept traffic to port 25 and run it
> through your own filtering mail server.
>
> It's the bane of my life when we have clients staying in hotels that do
> this :-)
>
> Worth adding from a user privacy perspective, it's pretty bad manners to
> intercept outbound mail traffic, especially if your users aren't explicitly
> consenting to this being done.
>
> If you want to prevent outbound spam from your users, I'd suggest setting
> up an SMTP smarthost that sends mail on behalf of your users (I'm sure
> there are probably pfSense packages for this, but I'd do it on another
> server, personally), educate your users about using this upstream SMTP
> server, give them time to change mail settings etc., then block port 25
> outbound and specifically open it for clients that need (legitimately) to
> use it.
>
> The important thing is explaining to users what you're doing, why you're
> doing it, and how they can 'opt out' of it if they want/need to.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Chris
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