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Access Control

I need help understanding the Access Control settings.
I have 2014 SP1 installed on a SuSE 11 SP3, only one Post Office, Domain, and all agents are on this dedicated server.

I want to lock down incoming messages to specific internet IPs.
We have moved our email security to the cloud, thus the reason for this.
I have made the necessary changes to the DNS Server yesterday and I came in early this morning in hopes of finishing up.
In the GWIA Access Control settings for the Default Class of Service, under SMTP Incoming, I added the IPs that the vendor said we would use under the 'Allow messages from:'

Question: In adding the IPs can I use wildcards for this? For example, if an IP Range is: 10.10.10.20-10.10.10.30, is 10.10.10.2? a valid entry?

I then selected 'Prevent incoming messages', clicked OK until I was all the way out of the gwia settings, then restart the gwia agent.
I sent a test message from my personal (hotmail) account and it was immediately rejected as undeliverable.
(Naturally, I went back in and selected 'Allow incoming messages' until I can get a successful test).

I'm thinking that it might be the wildcard that is not acceptable?
If not, then I don't know what else I need to do.

I saw TID 7006146 - Configure GWIA to only allow inbound SMTP traffic from a specific site.
Which shows: In the Exceptions, "Allow messages from" section , put in an entry of, *@*.*
However, I don't THINK it applies since it lists only GW versions 6 - 8.(?)

Many thanks!

Stan
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  • Hi.

    Am 12.11.2014 13:56, schrieb Demaximis:
    >
    > I need help understanding the Access Control settings.


    Yes. ;)


    > Question: In adding the IPs can I use wildcards for this?


    Answer: You don't and can't use IPs there.

    > I saw TID 7006146 - Configure GWIA to only allow inbound SMTP traffic
    > from a specific site.
    > Which shows: In the Exceptions, "Allow messages from" section , put in
    > an entry of, *@*.*
    > However, I don't THINK it applies since it lists only GW versions 6 -
    > 8.(?)


    It does apply, and is a dead giveaway that access control works based on
    email addresses (only), and not IPs.

    What you're looking for is a job for a firewall. It's outside the scope
    of what GWIA can do.

    CU,
    --
    Massimo Rosen
    Novell Knowledge Partner
    No emails please!
    http://www.cfc-it.de

  • Massimo, hate to burst your bubble, but access control does work for IP's.



    For whatever reason, the syntax to provide 'wildcarding' of addresses is not *, but you include a range of addrs you want to accept from: ie, 10.10.10.5-100, using a - to specify the range..



    --Morris



    >>> Massimo Rosen<mrosenNO@SPAMcfc-it.de> 11/12/2014 8:48 AM >>>



    Hi.

    Am 12.11.2014 13:56, schrieb Demaximis:

    >
    > I need help understanding the Access Control settings.


    Yes. ;)



    > Question: In adding the IPs can I use wildcards for this?


    Answer: You don't and can't use IPs there.


    > I saw TID 7006146 - Configure GWIA to only allow inbound SMTP traffic
    > from a specific site.
    > Which shows: In the Exceptions, "Allow messages from" section , put in
    > an entry of, *@*.*
    > However, I don't THINK it applies since it lists only GW versions 6 -
    > 8.(?)


    It does apply, and is a dead giveaway that access control works based on
    email addresses (only), and not IPs.

    What you're looking for is a job for a firewall. It's outside the scope
    of what GWIA can do.

    CU,
    --
    Massimo Rosen
    Novell Knowledge Partner
    No emails please!
    http://www.cfc-it.de
  • I will give that a try tomorrow and I will report my results.

    Thanks Morris!:)
  • Morris,

    Am 12.11.2014 21:54, schrieb Morris Blackham:
    > Massimo, hate to burst your bubble, but access control does work for IP's.


    Thanks. I get old... :( ;)

    CU,
    --
    Massimo Rosen
    Novell Knowledge Partner
    No emails please!
    http://www.cfc-it.de
  • You too!? :rolleyes:

    I made the suggestion changes and I got the same results: Test messages from my hotmail account to my work account weren't being delivered.
    So, I gave up on that "feature" and made settings in our firewall to prevent anything connecting to our mail server (port 25) except for the security servers.

    Stan
  • In article <546367EF.56D8.00A3.1@no-mx.forums.novell.com>, Morris
    Blackham wrote:
    > For whatever reason, the syntax to provide 'wildcarding' of
    > addresses is not *, but you include a range of addrs you want
    > to accept from: ie, 10.10.10.5-100, using a - to specify
    > the range..


    Do you know when that got introduced?
    I worked with support way back to get TID 3959034 written to get this
    sort of thing to work and the - didn't work in GW7 era.


    https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3959034
    needs a bit of updating, but certainly has worked up through GW 2012



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  • In article <SFkaw.781$Yv2.538@novprvlin0913.provo.novell.com>, Massimo
    Rosen wrote:
    > Thanks. I get old... :( ;)


    We all do, but I still have more Grey hairs than you do, and Morris a
    few more than I.
    None of us are omniscient, even if we occasionally come across as 'know
    it alls'


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  • In article <SFkaw.781$Yv2.538@novprvlin0913.provo.novell.com>, Massimo
    Rosen wrote:
    > Thanks. I get old... :( ;)


    We all do, but I still have more Grey hairs than you do, and Morris a
    few more than I.
    None of us are omniscient, even if we occasionally come across as 'know
    it alls'


    Andy of
    KonecnyConsulting.ca in Toronto
    Knowledge Partner
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