God, do I feel silly. I spent about 1.5 hours digging through exim's
innards looking for a reason for this...
Whomever the faq maintainer is, this might be something usefull to put in.
Thanks!
Best,
Richard F. Rebel
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> +++ 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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