Author: John Burnham Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Final timeout during SMTP conversation with Watchguard
firewalls
Jerry Nicholls wrote:
>Ah Watchguards :/ I had exactly the same woes recently where I had set
>up an Exim bastion host protecting an Exchange server with a Watchguard
>between the two. It turned out that the Watchguard was in proxy mode,
>not filter mode and the proxy couldn't cope with NULL characters in the
>email :( Fortunately for us it didn't need to be in proxy mode (that was
>an oversight) and switching to just filter mode fixed the problem.
>
>
> Oh joy.... So the best I can do is try and get a list of domains I'm
having issues with and contact someone there and try to get them to fix
this ? Why am I filled with a sense of despair ?
John
