Sendmail connection time out

[Rob Sterenborg]

> I'm having a problem where many of my users can't sent email to
> everest.com.tw with error message
> "Deferred: Connection timed out with evn001.everest.com.tw"
> 
> The problem is, that they can sent email to them from gmail
> or any other webmail. and I can telnet to everest.com.tw server
> to port 25.
> [root at spam ~]# telnet evn001.everest.com.tw 25
> Trying 59.125.202.201...
> Connected to evn001.everest.com.tw (59.125.202.201).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> 
> What I have to look first to solve this problem?

$ telnet 59.125.202.201 25
Trying 59.125.202.201...
Connected to 59.125.202.201.
Escape character is '^]'.
220
*************************************************2******200********2***0
*00 *****
quit
221 2.0.0 spama.everest.com.tw closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

AFAICT you're behind a Cisco PIX with SMTP fixup enabled. Some SMTP
servers play nice with it, some not. Disable SMTP fixup. If I'm not
mistaken you can do it this way:

no fixup protocol smtp


Grts,
Rob