Hello Thank you for your reply Yes the mail server is on the internal network not on DMZ, there is no other publishing mail server this is the only one, there is web publishing rule that use the same ip address as the mail server but this one will use port 80 not 25 And I forgot to say that the mail server it self is behind isa caching server Best regards hanan -----Original Message----- From: Tom Mendelboim [mailto:tomerm1@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:23 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: publishing internal mail server http://www.ISAserver.org If your mail server is on the internal network and not on the DMZ, you don't need packet filter. Second, ISA does not accept pings out of the box so don' t worry about that. The inbound packet filter that listens on 25 might conflict with the publishing rule also trying to listen on 25 (if you are using the same ip) Take the packet filter out and restart the firewall service. Tom -----Original Message----- From: hanan [mailto:nouran@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 5:43 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] publishing internal mail server http://www.ISAserver.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org/ Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: tomerm1@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org/ Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: nouran@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')