Re: [Exim] Bell and banner problem

Administrateur Réseau Sogetel wrote:

> 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

You have a Cisco PIX in the way with "SMTP fixup" turned on. Check the
list archives for how to turn this off.
HTH,
John
>
> 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?
>
>
> thanks
>
> Dominic Germain
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