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pgopparaju
Nimbostratus
Jun 10, 2019Blocking specific hostnames to send emails through SMTP Realy
Hi, We use F5 BIG-IP as the SMTP relay and need assistance in blocking specific hostnames to send out emails, i did went through some iRules but couldn't find anything that can help me with and...
Kevin_Davies
Nacreous
Jun 12, 2019That's because it is SMTP traffic and not HTTP traffic. Applying a HTTP profile will just block the traffic.
When I said not easy, you then have to start writing iRules to interpret SMTP traffic. This is not a simple thing to do. See the codeshare for examples https://devcentral.f5.com/s/global-search/%40uri#q=smtp&sort=relevancy&f:@f5_url_filter=[Codeshare]
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