On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:19:14 -0300
francis picabia <fpica...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Giles Coochey <gi...@coochey.net>
> wrote:
> > On 23/03/2012 15:37, francis picabia wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, francis
> >> picabia<fpica...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We have a difficulty delivering to a site running a barracuda
> >>> appliance. I can email them from a gmail account, or via a telnet
> >>> session, but not via postfix on our SMTP gateway. I've contacted
> >>> the remote site from my gmail to discuss it but no progress so
> >>> far.
> >>>
> >>> I have the default pix conf settings and we are running postfix
> >>> 2.8.6
> >>>
> >>> In the logs we see it times out.
> >>>
> >>> Mar 21 15:01:30 thabit postfix-internal/smtpd[9296]: 6E7211F44DD:
> >>> client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
> >>> Mar 21 15:01:30 thabit postfix-internal/cleanup[9274]:
> >>> 6E7211F44DD: message-id=<moodlepost153...@acorn.mydomain.ca>
> >>> Mar 21 15:01:30 thabit postfix-internal/qmgr[28954]: 6E7211F44DD:
> >>> from=<lms.ad...@mydomain.ca>, size=6449, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> >>> Mar 21 15:01:30 thabit postfix-internal/lmtp[9288]: 2A0561F44EE:
> >>> to=<usern...@theirdomain.ca>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10026,
> >>> delay=189085, delays=189084/0.03/0.01/0.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
> >>> (250 2.0.0 Ok, id=09101-06, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10027): 250
> >>> 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 6E7211F44DD)
> >>> Mar 21 15:01:30 thabit postfix-internal/smtp[9198]: 6E7211F44DD:
> >>> enabling PIX workarounds: disable_esmtp delay_dotcrlf for
> >>> barracuda1.theirdomain.ca[24.224.X.Y]:25
> >>> Mar 21 15:11:30 thabit postfix-internal/smtp[9198]: 6E7211F44DD:
> >>> conversation with barracuda1.theirdomain.ca[24.224.X.Y] timed out
> >>> while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once
> >>>
> >>> I saw an older article about delivering to a barracuda gateway and
> >>> tried the solution with
> >>>
> >>> smtp_discard_ehlo_keyword_address_maps =
> >>> hash:/etc/postfix-internal/smtp_discard_ehlo
> >>>
> >>> and that file containing:
> >>>
> >>> 24.224.X.Y      pipelining
> >>>
> >>> This setting made no difference in the result and error.
> >>>
> >>> I wonder if the pix settings are not the right fit for this case?
> >>>
> >>> Is there a method to not use the pix workarounds for a single
> >>> destination?
> >>
> >> I read another old thread about Cisco firewalls associated with the
> >> pix workaround.
> >>
> >> When I telnet to the remote site, the response shows:
> >>
> >> 220 ************************************************************
> >>
> >> Is this a sign of the Cisco firewall or could it be something else
> >> masked?
> >>
> >> Should I look at suppressing dkim headers?
> >>
> > It is a sign of the PIX firewall removing data.
> >
> > To disable:
> >
> > 1. Logon to firewall command line
> > 2. type enable
> > 3. enter enable password or secret
> > 4. type configure terminal
> > 5. use 'no fixup protocol smtp 25' to disable SMTP protocol mangling
> > 6. type 'write memory' to save config to device
> > 7. restart or reload the PIX firewall
> 
> 
> Thanks, but this issue is on the remote site.  Given they can receive
> email from gmail and other sites, I'm not sure I can convince
> them to make these changes on their firewall.  There must
> be another solution so that I'm sending email to them
> they can digest.

http://blog.arschkrebs.de/blog/working-around-broken-cisco-pix-or-asa-installations/

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