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  • A lot of Rejected inbound emails; IP Address is Blacklisted

    Suddenly seeing a lot of rejected emails. Hover over the rejected in the log shows " Sophos Anti Spam Engine has blocked this Email because the sender IP is blacklisted" These same senders can be fine within minutes before/after these rejected emails…
  • XGS Email Cache?

    Hi, I may have made a big mistake. Does the XGS not have a disk cache for email? I'm moving from the UTM and it never occurred to me that the product line that ISN'T on its way out wouldn't have the same/similar functionality (albeit managed quite differently…
  • Manage Spam Probability Sophos XG

    Hi, I have emails with an 88% probability of spam that are not being quarantined. I would like to change this check: for example, if an email has the 70% of spam probability, then will be quarantined. Is it possibile?
  • Sophos Firewall: v18.5 MR3: AntiSPAM SASI (bad detection rate) - will there be any interim FIX?

    So, we upgraded to 18.5.3 and receive a lot more SPAM than usual I created two cases and Sophos has no solultion to fix this at the moment. So that is enhanced plus support value ... The only option would be a downgrade to 18.5.2 or wait a few month…
  • Email Protection Anti-spam, Antivirus, DLP, Encryption, and Email Malware Protection not working.

    I was wondering if anyone else is having issues with the email filter, the additional subscription on-prem Exchange 2019 server XGS3100 is the latest build (upgraded from UTM) the spam filter is useless and letting through a lot of spam, does…
  • SMTP no Policy_name none Sophos XG too many spams

    Hello Community. Sophos XG Firewall Firmware Version 18.5.3. We have too many of False Positive, and false negatives. The quality of Spam filtering is very poor. It is letting too many stupid emails go through. Checking the Logs, there are random…
  • SophosXG v19 ((home) - redirect Mail requests to an external (open source) secure mail gateway

    Hello Community, if upgrade to SophosXG v19 (Home Edition) and it takes a view minutes, but is was well done. now i would like to scan/monitor the form/to sender and the definition of "white/gray/black" listet mails that are coming trough SophosXG I…
  • MTA sends SMTP-Packets without an IP-Address (0.0.0.0)

    Hello, in the last few days we have repeatedly had the problem that the MTA has sent the SMTP-Packets to our internal Exchange-Server without an IP-Address (0.0.0.0). We use version 19 (SFV4C6 / 19.0.0-B317) as VM in Hyper-V. We can only solve the…
  • SFOS 18.5.3 MR-3-Build408 Bug

    Mail log and Spool Log pages are not refreshed . they show old status.
  • Email address(es)/domain(s)

    Hi, On our XGS, I'm trying to figure out the purpose of "Email address(es)/domain(s)" under Email > Address groups. At first I thought it was a way of explicitly listing spammers, but our own domain is listed there, along with Premium and Standard…
  • Email has been accepted by Device and queued for scanning. SFOS 18.5.2 MR-2-Build380

    Emails generated by firewall and also ones released from quarantine are just being queued and not being delivered . Please help am on SFOS 18.5.2 MR-2-Build380
  • Failed Outbound emails, not responding to Retry

    So Mimecast has a US outage about an hour ago that has since been resolved. I have 12 outbound emails stuck in the spool with status failed. When selected and the retry button is clicked nothing appears to happen. The logs show no further activity on…
  • POPIMAPDaemon Dead

    Hi I just updated the firmware for my XG-115 firewall. Then the device got rebooted. Thereafter i am getting POPIMAPDaemon Dead error under Services area How do i get it fixed?
  • smtp settings did not saved

    Hello @all, I can't save the settings under Email / General settings / SMTP Settings. No changes can be made, Mode is MTA and SFOS 18.5.3 MR-3-Build408 is installed. How can I solve that? Many thanks TBC
  • Block inbound email from one domain to one user only

    So I have a user getting emails from a questionable source at noreply@example.com . However, all other users receive acceptable emails from that same sender. Any way to stop my one recipient from receiving emails from that address, w/o blocking emails…
  • How to find out which RBl IP is listed

    HI Today I had a problem that almost all incoming emails were being listed as rm blacklist by Sophos XG450 (SFOS 18.0.5 MR-5-Build586) in MTA mode, analyzing some were clearly wrong, like Gmail senders. Analyzing, I removed the use of the RBL "Standard…
  • Bypass Sophos XG 18.5.2 - MTA for single internal hosts

    Hi, is there any best practice for bypassing the MTA for single internal host? I want a Exchange OnPremise Send Connector to send without a smarthost and use TLS / Domainbased Validation?
  • Anti-Spam does not start after reboot

    Today i had to reboot my FW SFOS 18.5 MR3 After the reboot the anti-spam service did not automatically restart, manual starting the service is not possibe.
  • XG210 (SFOS 18.5.3 MR-3-Build408) - SMTPD service dead

    After the 18.5.3 MR-3 update control center shows that SMTPD is dead. Via advanced console 5 - 3 I restarted the smtpd service service smtpd:restart -d -s nosync. service antispam:restart -d -s nosync. This did not solve it. I tried stopping…
  • blocking countries from trying to relay our exchange server, same time keeping them from email us

    Hi all I see a lot of relaying attempts from specific country every day, i am tired of adding the new IP everyday to the firewall rule since they use a new IP every time I can make a NAT for this country to re direct their request to fake server specifying…
  • Email Exception source networks

    We are migriting SG to XGS and one missing feature is that we have to add networks to E-Mail Exceptions. E. g. we often had problems using greylisting with O365 or Google-Mail. They have lists of networks that should be excluded in the greylisting. The…
  • eMail bounce after replacement of Firewall

    Good morning, we have made a backup of our old SG310, uploaded it to the new XGS3100. All settings were applied, however all incoming emails are marked as bounced and do not arrive at our local Exchange Server. The settings are 1 -1 to the old system…
  • Can you block all outbound e-mails from a certain adress?

    God day everyone. We have a certain e-mail address that we're 100% sure has been infected by a virus. The virus makes the address send spam mails constantly. And while they are being sent to quarantine before they are delivered, the load is still…
  • Benachrichtigungen werden nicht versendet - Email has been accepted by device and queued for scanning

    Hallo, ich habe die Benachrichtigungseinstellungen konfiguriert. Egal ob ich den integrierten Mailserver oder meinen externen Mailserver benutze bekomme ich die oben genannte Meldung und es kommt nichts an. Ich habe bereits in dem englischen Forum…
  • block or check simple phishing links in emails

    Hello all, I have the Sophos XG solution in the company. But it seems that with the new firewall it is not possible to block or check simple phishing links in emails how can this be? That would be an incredible step forward. Many greetings Si…