Hello I?m trying to publish internal mail server on isa server, I read the instruction in Dr Shinder book and I read the article on isa.org but nothing work I create a secure mail wizard on server publishing with the internal ip address of the mail server and the external ip address of the isa server I create protocol rule to allow smtp port 25 outbound, I create ip packet filter for smtp port 25 for inbound, local port fixed 25 and remote port all I can telnet the external ip address with 25 as 1.1.1.1 25 from inside I have answer, but when I try to telnet from outside I can?t no answer As Dr Shinder said in his book you should be sure that your external ip address is listening to the port 25, I did netsat -na to see the external ip address with the port 25 I didn?t find it , I didn?t find the port 25 with my external ip address and I think here is the problem but I don?t know what I must do? I can ping the external ip address from inside but I can?t ping it from outside Could you please help Best regards hanan