sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)

2009-11-21 Thread Victor Lyapunov
Hi all, I have production network with FreeBSD box acting as firewall. The problem emerge as soon as users send mail with attachments. (Sending mail without attachments always succeeds). Basically, when a user tries to send a message, only part of it transmitted before connection is interrupted

Re: sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)

2009-11-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, November 21, 2009 a las 08:59:12PM +0600, Victor Lyapunov escribió: Hi all, I have production network with FreeBSD box acting as firewall. The problem emerge as soon as users send mail with attachments. (Sending mail without attachments always succeeds). Basically, when a

Re: sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)

2009-11-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:27:20 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Saturday, November 21, 2009 a las 08:59:12PM +0600, Victor Lyapunov escribió: Hi all, I have production network with FreeBSD box acting as firewall. The problem emerge as soon as users send mail with

Re: sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)

2009-11-21 Thread Victor Lyapunov
This kind of thing is often due to a mtu blackhole - when a larger email causes a full size IP packet to be sent. I don't see why PF should make a difference though, IFAIK it's supposed to let ICMP through when it's learned state on a tcp connection. Thanks for your answer. Don't know whether

Re: sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)

2009-11-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:36:33 +0600, Victor Lyapunov fullblastst...@gmail.com wrote: This kind of thing is often due to a mtu blackhole - when a larger email causes a full size IP packet to be sent. I don't see why PF should make a difference though, IFAIK it's supposed to let ICMP through when