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Re: disabling SMTP
- From: Richard Welty
- Date: Sat Mar 27 21:46:02 2004
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:27:03 -0600 "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if the installed base of legitimate messaging systems has
> migrated to ESMTP so as to get away with disabling plain-old SMTP except
> for internal devices.
> Anybody got any data or observations on this?
yes. there are a lot of pix firewalls out there with smtp fixup turned on,
effectively disabling ESMTP (not to mention sporadically breaking
traditional SMTP.)
richard
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Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net
Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592
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