RE: Weird slowness

Bingo.

I forgot about how the PIX screws with things.
Shame on them.

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Riendeau [mailto:knightr@istop.com]=20
> Sent: Friday, 24 September 2004 10:14 AM
> To: Adam Clark
> Subject: Re: Weird slowness
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> Hi!
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> Adam Clark wrote:
> > Which is fairly speedy and looks fine
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> > If I telnet from outside of our DMZ I get:
> > 220 ***********************************
> > quit
> > 502 Error: command not implemented
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> > There is a delay of about a second or so.
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> > Any ideas?
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> You have a Cisco Pix firewall with SMTP protocol fixup enabled...
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> With that enabled, the Pix acts as some sort of proxy and=20
> this causes a lot of problem for many MTAs including Postfix...
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> I would suggest that you either disable it (smtp protocol=20
> fixup) or ask that it be disabled as Postfix is secure enough=20
> out of the box not to require this...
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> Have a nice day!
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> Nick
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