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

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Author: John W Baxter
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: 3.32 bad SMTP banner to Linux hosts, and EHLO 500 Unrecognized???
The FAQ indeed would be a good spot. The FAQ item should include the fact
(if it is a fact) that PIX's attempt to sanitize email by blocking ESMPT
stuff can be turned off...and a pointer into Cisco's documentation on the
subject.

--John

At 14:01 +0000 9/4/2001, Richard rebel wrote:
>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
>
>........................................................................
>
>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
>> --
>> Suresh Ramasubramanian  <---->  mallet <at> efn dot org
>> EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin

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