How to allow outlook

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi there,

I am having issue, my outlook is not getting configured, i do not have any firewall rule define in mikrotik. but it is still not working.

I am beginner and don’t know how to allow outlook, please help me out in this regard.

thanks in advance.

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Regards,

Sohaib Khan

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This is not enough information for anybody to help you. Are other applications working? Do clients have internet access? What is the overall system layout?

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Hello Sohaib,

Sorry for being a little annoying, but opening the same topic twice will not solve your problem.

http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/outlook-not-working/58148/1

You have the basic necessary information in the previous topic.
Maybe it is time to read the wiki on how to use NAT and set up routing…

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Firewall/NAT

Check how to do Source NAT.

In my opinion this is a support forum, not a crash course in routing. You have to do your learning/reading part, too.

Stop using your webproxy and get your system working without it first as a simple router with NAT.
Then your outlook will work. Enable webproxy after.

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Hi there,

sorry i opened 2 topics for the same issue.

Actually i am really new in mikrotik, the network person who used to configure mikrotik has resigned and unfortunately things come upto me.
What we are running right now in our mikrotik, is just proxy server. We have two interface card in our mikrotik server,
1- Lan
2- Wan

nothing else running on it.

I dont know how to configure nat, but i will read the topic provided by docmarius.

hopefully it will done.

Anyways thank you guys.. :slight_smile:

regards,
sohaib khan

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Outlook has more than one way of accessing an Exchange server so make sure that you know which method (and therefore which ports) are necessary for your clients.

Checking your client settings and some Google should make it clear.

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Sohaib,

First of all, disable webproxy so you can test all the setup.

You need the following steps (replace LAN and WAN with your interface names!):

  1. A masquerade rule in IP/Firewall/NAT to get ALL of your requests to your ISP:
add action=masquerade chain=srcnat comment="Outgoing" out-interface=WAN
  1. Some forward firewall rules to allow forwarding, in IP/Firewall/Filter:
add action=accept chain=forward comment="Forward from ISP" in-interface=WAN
add action=accept chain=forward comment="Forward to ISP" in-interface=LAN

Now ALL your connections should work, including outlook.
If you really need webproxy, you can enable it AFTER this works.

Of course you can also use Winbox to set up these rules.

If you use programs like Skype or uTorrent which support automatic firewall pass-through and want them to be able to accept direct WAN connections, you can enable UPNP under IP/UPnP, which will give you automatic dstnat rules.

Don’t forget the wiki for more information:

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Firewall

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i have walled garden ports 993,995,465 for outlook can download yahoo business email & attachments using full line speed (8 MB )without users having to logon to hotspot & it works great, but once a user login email download speed drops down to user’s limit (eg.: 512KB) & it fails many times giving error message (connection to server is interrupted) or (couldn’t download some messages )

when i disable hotspot or kick the user out or make bindings for a PC it works great but users will use internet with unlimited speed which causes many problems

a user in this forum told me to to mark outlook traffic & use simple queue for outlook but it’s getting bypassed by hotspot sever & users’ dynamic queues

it’s ROS 5.18 but can’t upgrade now for many reasons

I think it’s hotspot problem or it may be
I’ve 2 Lines ( real ADSL IPs) divided for 2 IP ranges using NAT mark routing & masquerade, hotspot , DHCP thats all
realy appreciate any help possible :frowning: