i tested the IP with -bh command, and the IP worked fine. i think you are right with the firewall the client is behind a cisco 836 dsl router, installed and maintained by the ISP, i think that mailguard feature is on. i will check that out
hey fred, thanks a lot for your help roman Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2005 17:54 schrieb Fred Viles: > On 24 Jul 2005 at 16:29, Roman Khassraf wrote about > > "Re: [exim] no ehlo possible when se": > | (I wrote:) > | > | > Are you *sure* you are connecting to exim for this test? If exim is > | > capable of responding to EHLO with 502, I'm not finding where it is > | > done in the source code (4.52). What does the banner message show? > | > |... > | i´m running exim 4.50 on debian 3.1 , it´s the only MTA running on the > | server ... > > The only other explanation I can think of is some sort of firewall > between the client and your server messing with the protocol. Cisco > PIX are notorious for that, but IIRC the munge the banner so ESMTP is > not seen to be advertised. Have you tested a non-PTR-IP from the > server via "exim -bh ip.ad.re.ss"? > > If that's not it, I'm stumped. > > - Fred -- Roman Khassraf EDV Dienstleistungen und Beratung Khunngasse 18/11 A-1030 Wien Mobil: 0664 14 32 802 www.khassraf.at -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
