SMTP IP whitelist in CIDR format

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Brett Rowbotham
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SMTP IP whitelist in CIDR format

Post by Brett Rowbotham »

Whitelisting IP addresses in the SMTP settings allows the use of wildcards. I need to whitelist all the IP addresses that Google Apps can use for email. This amounts to over 223 000 addresses and is virtually impossible to cover using only wildcard entries.

If CIDR format was available to specify the IP ranges to whitelist, then only 12 entries would be required to cover all the IPv4 addresses currently in use by Google Apps (and only 6 more if IPv6 was required).

Cheers,
Brett

nethub
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Re: SMTP IP whitelist in CIDR format

Post by nethub »

I agree with Brett.

Or alternatively MailEnable can support DNSWL (https://www.dnswl.org/?page_id=23) , just like qmail / postfix, so that we can setup own DNS to whitelist any IP.
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Brett Rowbotham
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Re: SMTP IP whitelist in CIDR format

Post by Brett Rowbotham »

Approaching 5 years later and still looking for this feature (my own post showing up on a Google search !).

Recently had to whitelist 8192 possible IP addresses. Could have been done with 9 CIDR entries, actually took 32 wildcard entries.

Please look into extending whitelisting to CIDR format to make it simpler to carry out this kind of task.

Cheers,
Brett

dcol
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Re: SMTP IP whitelist in CIDR format

Post by dcol »

I also would like to see ME support dnswl.org.
Devs, please look into this.

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