Sendmail connection time out

[Ed Bruce]

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> Jon Radel wrote:
>> Budi Febrianto wrote:
> 
>>> Sorry, we don't have cisco pix. We use cisco 2811 as our main router.
>> Cisco 2811 = Integrated Services Router (ISR) which means you're
>> probably running a fancy version of IOS with security features and may
>> wish to consider proceeding as previously suggested.
> 
> Ohh boy. Do not try to do anything smart with SMTP in any IOS device. I
> think the word broken will not sufficiently express the sorry state of
> the SMTP handler in IOS.
> 
> If you manage to pas any email through at all you should count yourself
> lucky. I have filed a series of bugs with Cisco but gave up after
> months. They just don't get it so they just should not touch it.

I guess I'm lucky. I'm so lucky I was passing SMTP through our firewall
into our Exchange server, yikes. Suddenly noticed 5,000 extra emails
trying to get out to the internet. Luckily MS stopped 'em cold.

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