Change outbound connections IP for Mail

Hello admins, the server will start to send the Spam mails due to malicious code or compromised mailbox. In that case, our outgoing IP address will get blocked by several spam filters including Gmail and other mail services.

In this case, we have to wait for a long time to get whitelisted or have to pay to be whitelisted. But if you have secondary IP addresses for your server, we can do this trick to send emails and let the main IP to whitelist automatically.

This means we will change to outbound connections from the main IP to the secondary IP address.

Important: Before proceeding with this, make sure that you have fixed the compromised code or application or mailbox. Else, your secondary IP address will also get blocked on Spam filters.

Default IP for outgoing connections can be set using ‘ip’ utility.

First of all, check how routing is configured on the server:

You can check this by the following command: -

# /sbin/ip route

159.8.30.64/28 dev bond1 proto kernel scope link src 159.8.30.66

10.105.124.128/26 dev bond0 proto kernel scope link src 10.105.124.130

169.254.0.0/16 dev bond0 scope link metric 1006

169.254.0.0/16 dev bond1 scope link metric 1007

10.0.0.0/8 via 10.105.124.129 dev bond0

default via 159.8.30.65 dev bond1

If no ‘src’ listed in ‘ip’ output for the default route, then the main IP on the interface is used for outgoing connections. You can change it using:

# /sbin/ip route change default via 159.8.30.65 dev bond1 src 5.153.43.25

Now:

# /sbin/ip route

192.168.50.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.50.53

169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link

default via 192.168.50.254 dev eth1 src 192.168.50.100

Note: be careful, if you set the wrong IP as the source, you lose the connection to the server.

Install and Uninstall VMware .bundle in Redhat - RHEL 6

Here the steps for Install and Uninstall VMware .bundle in Redhat and also Linux. I have checked with RHEL 6.

For install :
Login in as root user, Type following command

~]# sh VMware-***.bundle

Here *** will be your software and it's version.

This command will display normal GUI installation. Choose option as your wish.

For Uninstall :
Login in as root user, Type following command


~]# vmware-installer -l

This will display your product name and product version installed by VMware.

Ex:
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Product Name         Product Version    
========== ==============
vmware-player        4.0.1.528992   

Note Name and Version, Use following command to uninstall

~]# vmware-installer -u {product-name} {product-version}

Ex:
~]# vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation 8.0.1.528992

Now you can uninstall with GUI.

* This is common for all VMware .bundle installation files. Ex: VMware-Workstation, VMware-Player etc.