On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 08:14:10PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote:
[...]
> alex@buick:~$ telnet mail01.sherwin.com smtp
> Trying 148.141.15.156...
> Connected to mail01.sherwin.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220
>********************************************************0******************2*****2000
>******02**0*00
> EHLO buick.978.org
> 500 Syntax error, command "XXXX buick.978.org" unrecognized
> QUIT
> 221 ehub1.sherwin.com SMTP Service closing transmission channel
>
> This proves my theory that there is a very broken firewall product out
> there that corrupts the banner and ESMTP stuff on SMTP connections. We
> at UML are fortunate enough to be "protected" by this product as well
> (check out SMTP @ buick.978.org, and no those asterisks are NOT what
> gets sent). Of course, it breaks ESMTP, but who cares? We have to
> protect broken mailers.
This looks like what the Cisco PIX firewall does.
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Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare Laboratories
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