You need to turn off the fixup protocol for smtp on cisco routers...

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rich Garabedian
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] SMTP AUTH Troubles


Hi,

I'm trying to track down why SMTP auth seems not to be working. I've poured
through the email archives and I think I've identified the problem, but in
all honesty I'm a software guy and the inner workings of mail servers are
extremely new to me. After researching this today, I have just enough
knowledge to be dangerous and I'm sure some of newbie assumptions are
incorrect. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Problem:

When outside the network, emails cannot be sent via IMail to outside email
recipients. When attempting to do so, Outlook responds with something like:

550 unknown host, not a gateway

Configuration:

Outlook is configured to require authentication for outgoing mail.
IMail is set-up with "Relay Mail For", and a single IP address is specified.
Also, the "Disable" checkboxes on the SMTP Security page are NOT checked.

Logs:

(Actual domain names and ips changed/removed)

It looks like IMAIL is responding correctly to EHLO commands:

20021203 131321 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) >EHLO mail.server.com
20021203 131322 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) 250-ntserver.server.com Hello
[mail.server.com]
20021203 131322 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) 250-XEXCH50
20021203 131322 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) 250-HELP
20021203 131322 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) 250-ETRN
20021203 131322 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) 250-DSN
20021203 131322 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) 250-SIZE 0
20021203 131322 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) 250-AUTH LOGIN
20021203 131322 127.0.0.1       SMTP (880) 250 AUTH=LOGIN

However, I found what I think is log data that shows an attempt to send
email from outside the network and it does not appear as though IMail is
getting the EHLO command:

20021203 115017 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (3192012E) [24.52.173.121] HELO
RICHLAPTOP
20021203 115017 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (3192012E) [24.52.173.121] MAIL FROM:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20021203 115017 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (3192012E) [24.52.173.121] RCPT TO:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20021203 115017 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (3192012E) [24.52.173.121] ERR
mail.server.com invalid user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I've seen some references in the mail archives to firewalls stripping the
Extended helo from request. We use a Cisco firewall ... could this be
happening to us? Is there an easy way to verify?

Rich



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