Hi,
Is it possible to setup a email server on mikrotik or to get an addon package that acs as a email server on mikrotik?
No. You could install a Metarouter or KVM and run a different OS with an email server inside. That would only really work on routers with a lot of RAM. It’s much better to install a dedicated email server, though.
Oh ok,
I just thought you might get a small one with liek 10 to 20 addresses, Cause most ISP’s offer email addresses too.
Whats the best free Email server software for xp / centos / linux
That’s completely outside the scope of this forum. This forum is for beginner basics in RouterOS.
Ok true…
Annother question.
How can i make the RB redirect new users to a webpage. (simelar to how hotspot does it)
Just i dont want to have to login. So say i go there connect my pc to the network and i go to google it must Take me to my companies webpage and then once the router has your IP it does not bug you anymore.
But then if you turn your pc off and come back later it must take you back to that website??"
You can do that with a dst-nat firewall rule where you grab their tcp port 80 connection and redirect it to a different server. You could then make the 2nd rule in the chain one that adds the scr-address to an address list that is no longer affected by the first rule, and have a timeout so as long as they aren’t passing traffic and renewing the timeout they will eventually expire out of the rule. Here is a quick and rough example of getting it to work, you might need to tweak it to make it work properly. I haven’t tested it, so you might need to place the 2nd rule in the NAT section to get it working properly.
/ip firewall nat
add chain=dstnat protocol=tcp src-address-list=!Redirected dst-port=80 action=dst-nat to-address=Your_Company_Website_IP
/ip firewall filter
add chain=forward dst-address=Your_Company_Website_IP protocol=tcp dst-port=80 action=add-src-to-address-list address-list=Redirected timeout=1h
add chain=forward src-address-list=Redirected action=add-src-to-address-list address-list=Redirected timeout=1h
The first set of rules will initially redirect the first port 80 request to your companies web site. You will need to set it up to display a web site no matter what file they ask for and not a 404 error. Also this will not change the URL of the clients request, so if they are trying to go to www.google.com their URL bar will say www.google.com when they get your page. The 2nd rule is once they get to the IP of your server, they are added to an address list so they are no longer redirected to your website until they timeout of the address list. The 3rd rule is to keep them in the list until they stop passing traffic. If you don’t want to allow any traffic until they get to your website you’ll need to set up the appropriate filters to do so. Be sure to allow DNS through no matter what otherwise they can’t get anywhere.
You can also use hotspot as well to give you a bit more control. You can use it to load up a remote site in an i-frame and use a click through that will pass a user name and password to the Mikrotik to sign them in.
Thank you very much.
I will give it a try.
Its not that importnat securtity wise. Its more of an advertising thing. Just to imform clients on updates etc. And on my company page i will have shortcuts to commonly used website like this http://zapotech.co.za/homepage/01
Thanks