Implementation guide
We Protect
You Control
This document describes the steps which have to be taken after you have
Step 5: Service activation
subscribed for an Clean¬Port Managed E-mail Security account.
After directing the MX record to CleanPort the managed service is active
The CleanPort service is implemented in a very easy step-by-step-way.
and will scan and filter your E-mail*. The filtered and scanned E-mail will
be deliverd to your regular mailbox.
Step 1: CleanPort creates your account
* Depending on the Time-To-Live (TTL) settings of your MX records it might
We prepare our systems for receiving your organization’s E-mail and cre-
take up to 24hours before DNS changes become active.
ate your account. On the subscription form you have supplied us with a
username and a password. After creation of your ac¬count you can use
these to sign-in as the domain administrator. We will set all settings to
default val¬ues, which is suitable for most users. So it will most likely not
be necessary for you to sign-in immediately and change settings to get the
service working prop¬erly. Nevertheless you can adjust all settings according to your wishes at any time.
Step 2: CleanPort informs you
Step 6: (optional) Scanning your outbound Email
To also scan your domain’s outbound e-mail you have to point your outbound mail server (or the mail client(s)) to send through the CleanPort
SMTP tower appointed to you.
Outbound SMTP server:
smtp.nl.cleanport.com
CleanPort reports to you when your account has been created. This will
most likely be prior to the moment you will receive this document. At that
* Depending on your network setup you might also need to change your
moment you can make the necessary changes on your side. These are
firewall settings to allow traffic to the smtp server.
de¬scribed in the following steps.
Step 3: Safety and firewall
Make sure your smtp mail server only accepts e-mail from CleanPort. This
can be done through set¬tings in your firewall or mail servers. Change
your firewall or mail server to only allow incom¬ing mail (for the subscribed
domain) from these IP numbers:
212.79.242.192 - 212.79.242.255
193.28.13.0 - 193.28.13.255
Step 4: DNS
To activate the scanning and filtering of your incom¬ing e-mail your have to
change the MX-set¬tings in your DNS server. The MX records have to point
to the CleanPort-tower appointed to you.
MX settings:
mail1.cleanport.nl - priority 10
mail2.cleanport.nl - priority 20
* Make sure that there is not still a defined priority below 10 for the settings of the MX-records since otherwise your organisation’s E-mail will not
be scanned and filtered by CleanPort.
Implementation guide
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