Re: [Exim] Extreme weirdness

> On 14-Feb-2000 Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> >> Could be the Cisco PIX's, but I instinctively doubt that, a lot of
> >> people use that feature.
> >
> > What's PIX?
>
> The Cisco firewall solution. It has one magic trick which allows it to
> act as a proxy for all manner of protocols so it can do clever
> hand-offs to different machines for virus scanning, for example. (I had
> a presentation yesterday discussing the relative merits of the Cisco
> and Lucent FW solutions; good timing :)
>
> It looks to me like the messages are getting processed external to Exim
> by something else. I would seriously doubt the integrity of whatever it
> is you're handing those messages off to with the PIX, myself.

which are the Exim 3.02 boxes directly.

I'm going to take this up with Cisco as well. Do you know anyone else
who uses PIX to proxy SMTP?

James.