Current setup Centos which is a Web, Mail (Postfix,Dovecot), FTP Server and Gateway with public ip and private ip (for LAN Gateway). We are planning to implement external firewall box and bring the server to LAN Please guide on configuring IPTables... Unable to receive mail and outgoing mail stays in postfix queue and is sent after delaying... The local ip of the server is 192.168.1.220 iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP incoming HTTP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --sport 80 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 443 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --sport 443 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT outgoing HTTP iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --sport 80 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT FTP iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --sport 1024:65535 -d 192.168.1.220 --dport 21 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.220 --sport 21 -d 0/0 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --sport 1024:65535 -d 192.168.1.220 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.220 --sport 1024:65535 -d 0/0 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT SMTP iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --sport 1024:65535 -d 192.168.1.220 --dport 25 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.220 --sport 25 -d 0/0 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.220 --sport 1024:65535 -d 0/0 --dport 25 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --sport 25 -d 192.168.1.220 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT POP3 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --sport 1024:65535 -d 192.168.1.220 --dport 110 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.220 --sport 110 -d 0/0 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT