Benedikt Hochstrasser wrote:
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> The problem is that everyone and their brother feels invited to
> configure them. Take away those web interfaces, Cisco. Strip'em down to
> a cryptic command prompt so that someone who isn't sure what he/she's
> doing isn't tempted to do it...
> (same goes for routers and switches, btw)
Hear, hear!
Unfortunately Cisco turns on the SMTP mailguard feature by default.
Therefore, you have to know that it is not really usefull at this stage
and turn it off. The primary problem with the mailguard feature is that
is forcfully disables all ESMTP support. Cisco keeps saying that they are
going to 'fix' the mailguard 'feature' to support ESMTP but I have not
seen them do that yet.
Any time I happen to see the Cisco PIX mailguard feature turned on, I
very strongly suggest that it gets turned off, I even refuse to diagnose
any email delivery problems until it is turned off.
Most people are surprised at how much better thier mail servers work after
turning that stupid thing off :)
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