Topic: MessageWall closes port 25

[Robert Boardman]

I have installed Messagewall on SME 5.6, but it seems to close port 25 inbound and outbound

Has anyone found this?
 does anyone know of a fix?

Robb

[Tivon Coles]

Hi Rob

is it safe to assume you have installed Craig Fosters Beta MessageWall install?
if you haven't I would suggest doing so,

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/cfoster/beta/messagewall/

make sure messagewall is running,
then try telneting from another machine on your local network to your severs port 25
eg telnet 192.168.1.1 25
if you get
Connecting To 192.168.1.1...Could not open a connection to host on port 25 : Connect failed

try running the following command as root on your linux box
# messagewall

do you see the following messages:
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile LightPlus
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile Extreme
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile Light
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile MediumPlus
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile Medium
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile StrongPlus
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile None
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile Reject
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile Relay
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile Strong
STARTUP/STATUS: loaded profile Warning
{0} PROCESS/STATUS: start
fopen(pid_dir/mwall.pid): Permission denied

if so the the permissions are not correct on the pids directory, all you need to do is type the following
# chmod 775 -R /var/service/messagewall/pids
# chgrp nofiles /var/service/messagewall/pids
# service messagewall start

try telnet again and you should get
220 yourdomain.com mailfront ESMTP MW

hope this helps

Tivon,

P.S. I am just about to start writing an interface for configuring if anyone is interested let me know, I will need some beta testers.

[Cyrus Bharda]

Tivon,

Yes I'll put my hand up for testing, I am currently looking at using messagewall just for the ability to block attachments, all the other features I probably will not use as I already use D.May's dsbl contrib and it blocks spam satisfactorily.

But I would be more than happy to test out a panel, that would be a great addition to the messagewall contrib!

Cyrus Bharda