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by wwnick
14 Feb 2019, 05:51
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: CSF Blocking SMTP mail when its not configured to do so
Replies: 28
Views: 26664

Re: CSF Blocking SMTP mail when its not configured to do so

I *THINK* I may have just got a hint.... My Wordpress site decided to stop sending emails, and I managed to do a little testing. It was configured to send messages via SMTP to an external site, today I suddenly got emails that it wouldn't send due to incorrect authentication. So I used the test opti...
by wwnick
10 Dec 2018, 21:55
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: CSF Blocking SMTP mail when its not configured to do so
Replies: 28
Views: 26664

Re: CSF Blocking SMTP mail when its not configured to do so

After reading that when CSF is restarted everything works again, try to do the following: in your main CSF control panel add the IP that is being blocked in QUICK IGNORE, restart CSF and check if that does the trick. As NETLINK mentioned, I also have the remote SMTP server's IP address in csf.allow...
by wwnick
09 Dec 2018, 23:12
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: CSF Blocking SMTP mail when its not configured to do so
Replies: 28
Views: 26664

Re: CSF Blocking SMTP mail when its not configured to do so

Hi Sergio, This very same problem has been plaguing us for a couple of months... our billing system (running on a cPanel server) suddenly can't send emails. Once csf is restarted everything is fine. I have the IP address for server and the SMTP server in csf.allow and lfd Ignore files. There are no ...