Forgive me if this is off topic, but I don't know where else to turn.

I've got a customer who's having trouble sending mail to two domains with
nothing obvious (to me) in common save for one thing; both domain's primary
MXen look to be sitting behind Cisco PIX devices with Mailguard turned on.
I know this because of the greeting I get from both:

220 *******************************************************************

Now, everything I can find about these devices says that they only allow
seven SMTP commands:​

​HELO, ​
MAIL
​, ​
RCPT
​, ​
DATA
​, ​
RSET
​, ​
NOOP
​, ​
QUIT
​


And they're supposed to respond with OK to everything else. These two
domains, again not obviously related, mail servers in different /8s, don't
even do that, though; both of them are responding in
​ unsuspected ways even to commands from the above list, to wit:

RSET
500 Syntax error, command unrecognized
QUIT
500 Syntax error, command unrecognized
​

​I've never wrangled one of these beasts (haven't even *seen* evidence of
one in many years) so I'd like to ask you fine folks if you've ever seen
anything like this​ from one of these, and what it means for their
configuration? I mean, is this a common bug/misconfiguration, or have I
just hit the lottery?

Thanks.

-- 
Todd
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