Tell him to get different Cisco support people. This is a "my manure doesn't stink" problem.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:32 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: PIX fixup and E2K > > > I see said the blind man. Thanks for the info. The customer > just feels that he vulnerable and is getting told this by his > Cisco support people. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Meunier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:12 PM > Subject: RE: PIX fixup and E2K > > > That's not what the fixup protocol does. It basically strips > anything out but HELO, MAIL, RCPT, DATA, QUIT, RSET, and > NOOP, and doesn't send them to your SMTP server. So MAIL TO: > would go through, but AUTH LOGIN: would not. And you're > requiring AUTH to allow your external clients to relay. > > So make your management choose. Do they want to relay spam? > Do they want to allow your users to use POP3 at home? I say > again, mailguard isn't necessarily evil. It just really > doesn't do anything to add any level of security. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Posted At: Friday, February 22, 2002 01:25 PM > > Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List > > Conversation: PIX fixup and E2K > > Subject: Re: PIX fixup and E2K > > > > > > With the smtp fixup applied. Users who access the email server via > > their ISP connection can not send mail to people with outside email > > addresses. I guess the command like mail > > to: gets sent to the email server as a xxxx command by PIX > since it is > > not allowing a telnet session thus a relay message is sent to the > > user. 5.7.1 can not relay. Once smtp fixup is removed everything is > > fine. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

