[KLUG Members] SendMail (?) issue

[Dan Sikorski]

Mark Kowitz wrote:

>I'm having an issue either with my sendmail server or an outside issue
>with someone's FIrebox firewall.  Whenever we send or try to receive
>email from this site (they use MS Exchange), I get an error in my
>logfile:
>"k2Q9FebZ014205: mail.abcde.com [64.141.128.42] did not issue
>MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA."
>Checking with their admin, he says that they did a firmware update to
>their firebox, closing off an IDENT port that Sendmail supposedly
>requires.  He says that Firebox says opening this port is a security
>risk, so is hesitant to do so.
>Anyone know anything about this?  Any ideas?
>  
>
They're having problems because (unless this has changed since the 
firebox that i used a few years ago) their firebox proxies all outbound 
SMTP connections.  I used to have fits with this until we finally got 
rid of that worthless waste of space and time that bore the name 
watchguard firebox.  The only reason we ever used one was because it was 
some sort of promo or something and it was cheap.  Funny how some things 
are cheap for a good reason.

    -Dan

Me? Bitter? You are what you drink, and i like IPA.