Re: [Exim] Final timeout during SMTP conversation with Watch…

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Author: Tor Slettnes
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To: John Burnham
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Final timeout during SMTP conversation with Watchguard firewalls
On Apr 27, 2004, at 04:09, John Burnham wrote:
> 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 ?


I suppose you could always strip out NUL characters of outgoing mail
(they should not be there in the first place, probably generated by a
virus):

     some_transport:
         .....
         transport_filter = /usr/bin/tr -d \\000


-tor