PIX VPN mail problem

[ndog4ever]

I have an office setup with a pix vpn solution. Everything is working good, users can access the internal file server and browse the internet ok. However, they cannot send emails when they are on the road because the outgoing mail server is rejecting there connection. I am guessing the outgoing mail traffic is going out the split tunnel since there isnt an access-list or some kind of filter for that particular mail server. The mail server resides with our DSL connection, we dont run any internal mail service. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

 

[yizhar]

HI.

Try to configure the client to use the ISP mail server. The ISP of the client side connection.
Some mail clients can have multiple configurationa (profile/identity/etc..) so the user can switch configurations more easily.

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[yizhar]

Another option you can try is to install a SMTP mail server to relay emails from the VPN client to the DSL company mail server.
There are many free SMTP servers for Windows and Linux that can do that.
However this will generate unneeded VPN traffic so a direct connection from client to ISP SMTP server should be preffered.

Some ISP mail servers support SMTP authentication. Check this option also with your ISP.

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Yizhar Hurwitz

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