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Old 12-02-2015, 08:34 AM   #1
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Mail server sending unknown data to foreign IP


Hello

I have one question, may be I am missing something or I don't I have installed mail server on centos 7 with postfix, dovecot, clamav, postgrey, spamassassin, mariadb and apache, roundcube. But problem is that when I send mail inside domain server is sending something on TCP port to addresses: 208.83.139.204, 208.83.137.114. I have checked that IP addresses and they belong to Cloudmark. I have also checked sa-update and freshclam but they are using different IP addresses to update.

here is example of iptables log output:
IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=myip DST=208.83.139.204 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43946 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=59373 DPT=2703 WINDOW=14600 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

First I thought may be it was email client thunderbird sending something but from web is same situation. So installation is fresh and my server is sending something to Cloudmark when I send mail inside domain.

Thank you for attention and help
 
Old 12-02-2015, 08:44 AM   #2
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What's the question?
 
Old 12-02-2015, 08:55 AM   #3
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question is why? why to cloudmark? every time mail is sent inside of domain.
 
Old 12-02-2015, 09:16 AM   #4
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I'd check to see if the domain is utilizing cloudmark's service(s).

Have you looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudmark ?
Looks reasonable to me to seeing as they provide protection against spam, viruses, phishing, and similar threats that affect email.
 
Old 12-02-2015, 09:17 AM   #5
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how are you know "208.83.139.204" belong to Cloudmark?
 
Old 12-02-2015, 09:22 AM   #6
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I dont know i have searched with ip locator.
 
Old 12-02-2015, 09:24 AM   #7
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Ever heard of whois?
 
Old 12-02-2015, 10:29 AM   #8
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yes but question was not that my friend
 
Old 12-02-2015, 10:43 AM   #9
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Actually I was responding to post #5. One can run whois from command line or use a web based whois service, to answer the question.
 
Old 12-02-2015, 11:33 AM   #10
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yes yes i do i have done an that is Cloudmark. But i was interested why? why sending packets there.
 
Old 12-02-2015, 11:40 AM   #11
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Tap, tap tap. Is this thing "on"?
Are you even reading replies?
I've suggested what I would do, if I were in your shoes.
 
Old 12-02-2015, 12:14 PM   #12
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sorry Habitual I was little busy. This server does not serve any domain yet. It is not accepting mail from internet yet. I was just testing post installation and have discovered that when I send mail internally packets go to that IP address. Thank you I have read and no sure 100 percent server yet is not serving email for any domain.
 
Old 12-02-2015, 02:14 PM   #13
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sorry Habitual I was little busy.
Been there, done that. No worries.
 
Old 12-04-2015, 02:56 AM   #14
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i search for cloudmark, one of the result is this:
Automatically detects e-mail accounts and begins filtering them. It works independently of email clients to block spam.

Your mail domain is hosted where?

Have you checked in your configuration whether those said IP Addresses is being used: 208.83.139.204, 208.83.137.114

As Habitual had already stated, is the mail server utilizing services from Cloudmark?
 
  


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