Here in this article we will understand what is sender policy framework (SPF) and then we will discuss how to implement SPF protection in sophos XG firewall to protect spoofed and spam emails Overview Of SPF: Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an email authentication technique that helps protect email senders and recipients from spam, spoofing and phishing. It defines a […]
Issue: In this article we will focus on how to resolve the issue when scheduled back up is not sending through email. Under administration >> notification settings user has configured built in mail server and he is using sender email address as “seshulosett@gmail.com” and recipient email address as “seshu.losetti6@gmail.com”. We have configured schedule back up under back up and firmware […]
Here in this article we will discuss how to configure outbound email routing through sophos XG firewall. First step for configuring outbound email is to create firewall rule to allow email traffic from LAN to WAN zone. Login to the sophos XG firewall, click on Rules and Policies and then click on Add firewall rule. Fill up the firewall rule […]
Here in this article we will discuss how to configure email protection in sophos XG. Sophos XG email protection works in two modes MTA mode Legacy Mode In this article we will mainly focus only on MTA mode MTA Mode: In MTA mode sophos XG firewall will act as mail transfer agent. When you configure sophos firewall as MTA agent, […]
Issue: Here in this article when user is sending outbound emails through sophos XG firewall he is getting “Relay not permitted error”. You can see this error under “Email >> Mail logs” by hovering over error if you are using MTA mode. In case if you are using legacy mode, you have to login to the sophos XG firewall CLI. […]
Overview: Here in this article we will understand how to configure email notifications in sophos XG firewall, so that users can receive any alerts related to firewall. Ensure you have enabled email notifications under System services >> Notifications List Process: Login to the sophos XG firewall and click on Administration >> Notification settings You can send notification directly from sophos […]
Issue: Here in this article we will discuss how to troubleshoot the issue when user is getting defer (-53) error under email >> mail logs. This entry in the smtp.log is no error – it’s just information. If the remote mail server replies with a temporary error (for example because of active greylisting) the mail server of the UTM will […]
Issue: Whenever one user is sending any email through sophos it is getting blocked in sophos email logs as shown in below screenshot. It’s under Email >> mail logs Resolution: Whenever you are getting any blocked logs as shown in above screenshot. Then login to sophos firewall GUI, go to email >> general settings, scroll down until you get blocked […]