Tell him to get different Cisco support people.

This is a "my manure doesn't stink" problem.

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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.
> >
> 
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