[Exim] Re: 3.32 bad SMTP banner to Linux hosts, and EHLO 500…

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Re: 3.32 bad SMTP banner to Linux hosts, and EHLO 500 Unrecognized???
+++ Richard rebel [exim-users] <30/08/01 17:46 +0000>:
> Exim 3.32 on Solaris 2.6 host seems to be responding to my Linux hosts
> [root@bertha etc]# telnet ims.corp.fortunecity.com 25
> Connected to ims.corp.fortunecity.com.
> 220 ***************************************2**********0****200*********2**0*00


This is the sign of a Cisco Pix "Mailguard" sitting in front of your MTA

> Also, it does NOT understand EHLO's???? Thus we never get TLS sessions.


Pix breaks ESMTP and only does SMTP. It is a nuisance when you have a secure
MTA running on your box.

"no fixup protocol smtp 25" should do the trick I think ...

    -suresh
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