Difference between revisions of "SMTP Fixup Issue"
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| − | This is also referred to as SMTP Inspection and is a feature on Cisco firewalls. Unfortunately it | + | This is also referred to as SMTP Inspection and is a feature on Cisco firewalls. Unfortunately it causes what are often hard to diagnose blocking of email passing through the firewall and is considered a useless anti-spam feature by most. The following article contains more detail: |
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| + | https://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/networks/2009/11/26/cisco-firewall-smtp-fixup-considered-harmful/ | ||
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| + | To determine if this feature is in the mail delivery path for your mail server go to an external computer and open a terminal window. Then telnet to your mail server on port 25 as shown below: | ||
root@colo4(~)# telnet server.at.some.domain 25 | root@colo4(~)# telnet server.at.some.domain 25 | ||
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220 ************************************************************************************************* | 220 ************************************************************************************************* | ||
| + | The long line of "*" is the indicator of the feature being in place. We strongly recommend that the feature be disabled on the firewall. | ||
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Revision as of 13:20, 15 March 2016
This is also referred to as SMTP Inspection and is a feature on Cisco firewalls. Unfortunately it causes what are often hard to diagnose blocking of email passing through the firewall and is considered a useless anti-spam feature by most. The following article contains more detail:
https://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/networks/2009/11/26/cisco-firewall-smtp-fixup-considered-harmful/
To determine if this feature is in the mail delivery path for your mail server go to an external computer and open a terminal window. Then telnet to your mail server on port 25 as shown below:
root@colo4(~)# telnet server.at.some.domain 25 Trying 1.2.3.4... Connected to server.at.some.domain. Escape character is '^]'. 220 *************************************************************************************************
The long line of "*" is the indicator of the feature being in place. We strongly recommend that the feature be disabled on the firewall.
