Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Strange Characters in Greeting
Marc Perkel said: > This is probably easy - but I'm missing something.
>
> If I telnet into localhost 25 I get the standard exim greeting.
> Everything is fine.
>
> But - if I telnet in from outside I get:
>
> 220 ***********************************2******200**0*****0***0*00
>
> What am I missing?
A Cisco firewall which is munging the SMTP stream. The archives will tell
you about it (but don't try searching for the ****s :-)