[69144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: disabling SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Sat Mar 27 21:44:38 2004
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:43:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <406637F7.1000301@ehsco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:27:03 -0600 "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if the installed base of legitimate messaging systems has
> migrated to ESMTP so as to get away with disabling plain-old SMTP except
> for internal devices.
> Anybody got any data or observations on this?
yes. there are a lot of pix firewalls out there with smtp fixup turned on,
effectively disabling ESMTP (not to mention sporadically breaking
traditional SMTP.)
richard
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