Support CETEMMSA wrote:

>Sorry for my ignorance but I think that is possible with iptables rules.
>
>I would mask all traffic from 192.168.10.24 to tcp port 25 with real ip in
>the firewall/gateway server.
>
>Is not possible?

No, you've missed the point. The DNAT will take care of translating 
the source address of the outgoing packets & dest address of incoming 
packets - that's not a problem.

But mail programs will "chat" as part of the pre-amble to exchanging 
a message, and part of that preamble typically contains the host name 
(or IP address). I suspect the problem will be in the HELO clause, 
where one server says HELO to the other :

$ telnet somemx.somedomain.com 25
Connected to somemx.somedomain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 somemx.somedomain.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
HELO somesender.somotherdomain.com
250 somemx.somedomain.com
...

The hostname used by the recipient (somemx.somedomain.com in this 
example) will largely be ignored, but many receiving servers will do 
some sanity checks on the hostname given in the HELO statement 
(somesender.somotherdomain.com here). While technically there is no 
requirement for this to be anything specific, it is normally expected 
to be the hostname of the sending device as a FQDN, or at least it's 
public IP address.

It would not surprise me to find that people block mails from devices 
that identify themselves as an RFC1918 private address. A properly 
configured mail server should not do this, but a spam bot looking up 
it's hostname in many networks is likely to do so.

Postfix allows this to be set by putting "myhostname = 
somemx.somedomain.com" in /etc/postfix/main.cf.


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