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
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