Blocking Outbound Traffic to an Offsite Mail Server

Use Case: Block access to the SMTP service to prevent a user from sending email through an offsite mail server.

Solution: Create a host address object with the IP address 10.64.173.20 called “OffsiteMail” and then create a firewall rule as follows:

From Zone

LAN

To Zone

WAN

Services

SMTP

Source Address

Any

Destination Address

OffsiteMail

Match Action

Deny