Try the IDS software for the pix. 

Jason

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:11 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] SMTP Commands


> > So...will Imail work OK without the ESMTP commands?
> 
> You  will  be  deprived  of  the  following  functionality,  with  the
> associated consequences:
> 
> SIZE  - Mailers will think they are unable to warn your server upfront
> about  the size of an incoming message, nor will the maximum size of a
> message  be  able  to  be  announced  from server to client. This will
> likely  have  no  effect,  as the remote server will fall back to just
> sending  the  message regardless, letting the server decide whether to
> reject it after the DATA is sent.
> 
> 8BITMIME  -  Mailers  will not be requested to send 8-bit MIME encoded
> messages;  some  will  anyway,  while  others will switch to alternate
> encoding.  Since  Imail  continues  to  support  8-Bit MIME internally
> whether  or  not it is announced in the EHLO, there's unlikely to be a
> problem.
> 
> DSN  -  Mailers  will assume they cannot request extended DSN options,
> which could result in non/delivery notifications not being sent at all
> in some cases.
> 
> ETRN - Remote dial-up SMTP clients for whom you are queueing mail will
> be disabled.
> 
> AUTH - Self-explanatory.
> 
> EXPN  -  Users  will not be able to list the members of Group Aliases,
> which is just as well.
> 
> Be  aware  in  general  that  turning  off ESMTP, which is the default
> protocol  for  many  mailers, means, as the saying goes, "a persistent
> small  expansion  in  traffic"  for little to no return as the mailers
> fall  back  to  standard  SMTP.  As  Len  said,  SMTP  Fixup is really
> half-baked.  For  instance,  the  PIX  is not gonna save you from, nor
> detect, a perfectly RFC 821-compliant DoS attack.
> 
> -Sandy
> 
> 
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