Re: [Exim] Bell and banner problem

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Author: Tabor J. Wells
Date:  
To: Administrateur Réseau Sogetel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Bell and banner problem
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:15:44PM -0400,
Administrateur Rseau Sogetel <network-admin@???> is thought to have said:

> We recently setup a brand new Exim server, everything works fine except
> sending email to Bell Canada (Sympatico) mail server. Their InterMail
> server accepts mail but there users never get the message. I try to
> reach their postmaster, but, Bell is big and slow to answer.
>
> I also noticed that when I telnet to by server, I get a weird banner...
>
> Trying 205.236.148.132...
> Connected to smtp.sogetel.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 *************************20 *****0******200*********2**0*00
>
> but when I connect from the server itself, I get the good banner :
>
> Trying 0.0.0.0...
> Connected to 0.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 sogetel.net ESMTP Exim 4.20 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:09:52 -0400
>
> my setting is :
> smtp_banner = $primary_hostname ESMTP Exim $version_number $tod_full
>
> Why the server only show 2 et 0 caracters?


You have a Cisco Pix firewall with their "MailGuard" feature turned on. You
should turn this off ("no smtp fixup" I think is the command) as it breaks
reliable mail delivery and prevents ESMTP from working.

Tabor

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Tabor J. Wells                                     twells@???
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