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  • 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…
  • [SFOS 18.5MR3] Poor spam detection after update to Sophos Anti-Spam Interface

    Hi everyone, I am setting up a separate thread as I did not receive any specific reply in other threads. The case concerns Sophos Anti-Spam Interface after upgrading from v18.5MR2 to v18.5MR3 and from v19EAP1 to v19EAP2. Before updating, antispam…
  • 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…
  • XGS firewall and mail protection settings

    I had a SG210, running UTM 9 and was using it as a mail gateway for multiple domains to filter spam mail before the mails be re-directed to respective mail hosts. The SG210 is set in transparent mode. I replaced the SG210 with XGS2300, also in transparent…
  • Sophos XG acting as Open Relay

    Hey Community, I´ve got a probleme which I don´t know how to fix, maybe some of u can help me! I´ve created a MTA on my Sophos XG 18 which receive and send Mails for my Exchange 2016. Now I have checked my mail flow and to my suprise mxtoolbox said…
  • Sophos XG Mail Protection

    Hello Folks, honestly, I'm pretty disappointed with XG in the matter of its mail protection. The implementation is so rudimentary that I just wonder if we are the only partner on this planet dumb enough to sell mail protection licenses to our customers…
  • XG 18.5.2 howto Skip TLS negotiation and verify?

    Hi, i need to Skip TLS negotiation for a email adress/domain. I already tried to add a FQDN-Host Entry like smtp.recipient.de and the IP-Host with the corresponding MX IP-Adress here. It´s still not working. What would be the correct setup? …
  • Firewall in MTA mode not sending out mails

    hi all, since about a day, my firewall Home edition 18.5.2 is not sending out any mails anymore. It seems it cannot connect to the smtp servers of the domains it tries to send to. Oddly enough, I can telnet from the firewall advanced console into…
  • mime type checking seems not to be working

    So i created the following entry in Protect > Email > File Type: However when i send a known malicious macro containing Word document it passes the FW. The anti virus scanner does recognize this and blocks the opening of the file. Any thoughts…
  • enable/disable MTA SMTP debug at XG 18.5.2

    Hi, i found some information on enabling smtpd debuging. I want to know the command to enable debuging and disabling debuing for a XG 18.5.2 running in MTA mode. I have one mail receipient, where we can´t send any mails and i want to get more debug…
  • Bounced emails on our mail?

    Hi, I'm using our Sophos SFV4C6 (SFOS 18.5.1 MR-1-Build326). Everything works fine except for an bounce mails from/to our mail (supporto@.....) This emails is bouncing but I don't really know why..... Does anyone have a suggestion for me? thanks…
  • Sophos Outlook Add-in only 32 Bit?

    Hi all, is it true, that Outlook encryption plug-in is available only for 32 Bit Outlook? Actually nearly all new setups are done with 64 Bit! Can somebode please confirm?If true: when 64 Bit will get supported? Best Gernot