On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:19 AM, Phil Pennock <[email protected]> wrote:
> A while back there were some people with issues using a Cisco PIX and > wanting to be able to work around their outbound connections passing > through such a device being broken by bugs in the PIX. > > Postfix has smtp_pix_workaround_delay_time and I've written a patch for > Exim to add smtp_dotcrlf_delay as an SMTP Transport option, for much the > same thing: to delay sending the final dot at the end of sending the > body of the email. The patch is attached to: > http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069 > > However, while the code is correct by inspection and delayed a test > outbound connection when I tried it, I haven't got a PIX to test against > to be *sure* that it actually does what's needed. I do not intend to > push this patch into the main repo unless and until we get confirmation > that it actually works. > > So, any PIX users want to confirm it works? > > Thanks, > -Phil > > >From my recollection basically the ESMTP fixup in the PIXOS 6.x and earlier >has always caused problems of sorts with ESMTP. Although not completely >relevant Microsoft has a kb on potential pix smtp fixup issues you may see. >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320027 I have even seen issues in the modern version of fixups in the pix/asa inspect command. I generally leave both disabled because of the inconsistencies while having it on. Thanks, James -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
