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Setting up firewall service for the first time, Step 1: configure firewall service, Setting up firewall service for the first time 568 – Apple Mac OS X Server (version 10.2.3 or later) User Manual

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Chapter 15

Block Junk Mail

To reject email from a junk mail sender with an IP address of 17.128.100.0 and accept all
other Internet email:

Allow a Customer to Access the Apple File Server

To allow a customer with an IP address of 10.221.41.33 to access an Apple file server:

Setting Up Firewall Service for the First Time

Once you’ve decided which filters you need to create, follow these overview steps to set up
firewall service. If you need more help to perform any of these steps, see “Managing Firewall
Service” on page 569 and the other topics refer
red to in the steps.

Step 1:

Configure firewall service

Configure firewall service in Server Settings.

To configure firewall service:

1

In Server Settings, click the Network tab.

2

Click Firewall and choose Configure Firewall.

You can configure firewall service to log denied and allowed packets, start up automatically,
specify how rejections are handled, apply TCP port filters to UDP and other packets, and set
up access for NetInfo.

For more information about the settings, see “Managing Firewall Service” on page 569.

Access

Port

IP address

Deny 25

(SMTP)

17.128.100.0

Allow

25 (SMTP)

All

Important

Set up very specific address ranges in filters you create to block incoming SMTP

mail. For example, if you set a filter on port 25 to deny mail from all addresses, you will
prevent any mail from being delivered to your users.

Access

Port

IP address

Allow

548 (AFP/TCP)

10.221.41.33

Deny

548 (AFP/TCP)

All

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