I have seen these as well. I just opened source and dest port 25 for my
smtp server - but some servers seem to have their source all over the
place - I got rid of the port restriction on the smtp and no more errors.
I would have liked to lock it down to 25/25, but ...


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>Hi,
>
>I have been getting some errors like the following:
>
>Feb  1 10:06:33 psn FILTER: Connect to closed port : TCP fxp0
>[198.3.99.25/25]->[xxx.xxx.xxx.x/20202] l=0 f=0x12.
>
>Does this mean some mailers are not sending mails to us?  I thought most
>mailers send mail to a destination port of 25, but this one is start on 25
>and ending on some random port.
>
>Doing a nslookup on the source ip reveals it's coming from
>"goatee-rwcmta.excite.com".
>
>Also, we had this strange problem.  Using the e-mail proxy, we were
>receiving our e-mail, but we could not send any e-mail.  Every domain was
>being rejected.  Why would this happen?  When I use a tunnel on port 25,
>everything is okay.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Lowell Tyler
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