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Chuck76_338274
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Nov 02, 2017

F5 and STARTTLS

I am not able to find a way for the F5 (BIG-IP 11.6.0 Build 1.0.403 Hotfix HF1) to essentially proxy an SMTP connection inbound and outbound to/from our email gateway and establishing (or not) a TLS ...
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Hey Chuck76,

 

Did this worked? can you confirm back?

 

Regards

 

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Chuck76_338274
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Feb 28, 2018

After review we decided not to use the irule approach. We implemented TLS for email with the F5 listening for incoming email as opposed to initiating via the F5. The email gateways sending email outbound will initiate the TLS going out. The irule approach didn't seem to be a clean approach. We looked at it for a while. Thanks for following up.