+++ V_Suresh [linux-india] <18/07/02 12:27 +0530>:
> Quoting *Suresh Ramasubramanian* - Day# 199, 2002:
> >   Oh, and see if you can secure your open relay first.
> 
>       Mail for mascotsystems.com is handled by
> gateway.mascotsystems.com. Though it seems to be an open

I'll try a rather thorough relaytester on it - http://www.monkeys.com/mrt/

> relay, it is not so. It accepts third party mails, but doesn't
> deliver them. Instead drops them.

That's supposed to be exchange's default behavior, but older versions can be
massaged into relaying for one combo or another (using weirdly formated but
legal smtp constructs).  This is in addition to the one or more holes that
stupid cisco pix mailguard you have in front of your server opens you up to
if misconfigured.

The pix, even when properly configured, makes a absolutely lousy mail
proxy... breaks ESMTP, holds up tons of mail courtesy extra stupid packet
filtering rules and MTU path discovery issues (causing duplicates etc) ...

Cure =

# no fixup protocol smtp 25

on the pix.  Then put sendmail or something similar there.

        -srs

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian  <---->  mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
[Linux One Stanza Tip]  From : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
LOST #220        -**< Sub : Unix to mac conversion (#1) >**-
If you have vim editor installed, the following  will do a mac 
to Unix (text file) conversion:
#!/bin/sh                           # Save u2m, chmod +x u2m
vim -c ":set ff=mac" -c ":wq" $1    # Usage: u2m filename.txt


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