John Peach:
> > And, did you see any light after doing some how work?
>
> He never called me back on Friday - I'm not going to attempt to troubleshoot
> something without having *some* idea of whats going on at the far end.
> I did some research on IDS - I asked our firewall guys :-) As far as I can see
> IDS can have nothing to do with this; he must have some kind of firewall as
> well (maybe a PIX, although he told me otherwise).
>
> I have looked fairly closely at some of my logs and it looks like there may
> well be some kind of configuration which will not talk to a postfix server - I
> can see a fair number of IPs which do nothing more than connect, then
> disconnect.

Not to sound hostile, but isn't it a bit premature to announce on
a public list that Postfix cannot talk to some software?

        Wietse

> If and when this guy gets back to me, I'll snoop the traffic and see if that
> tells me anything more interesting......
>
> >
> > Wietse
> >
> > John Peach:
> > > I know there is a potential problem with postfix living behind a PIX at
> > > certain software revisions.
> > > I have a client who has a mickeysoft implementation behind an IDS (Post.Office
> > > v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-54203U100L2S100V35). I don't yet know what release is
> > > on the IDS.
> > > The symptoms are that he can make a connection to a postfix server and the
> > > connection drops immediately. I have confirmed this behaviour by having him
> > > email my home address and exactly the same thing happens (that is running
> > > 1.1.11-20020819 and at work I have 1.1.7). I had him send to an email address
> > > I have which runs sendmail and it worked fine. It appears to be just postfix
> > > where this happens.
> > > Before I get down to running snoop and trying to decipher the packet
> > > information, has anyone else seen this kind of behaviour? I'm hoping that it's
> > > a Cisco problem which a software upgrade will fix......
> > >
> > >
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