RE: error in ORCPT reported by Sendmail 8.8.6 (again)

["Paquette, Trevor" <TrevorPaquette@mcc.net>]

That's it! I called them up and they do in fact have a PIX firewall in
front of that box. Thanx for the insight!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	mea@nic.funet.fi [SMTP:mea@nic.funet.fi]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 05, 1998 8:56 AM
> To:	TrevorPaquette@mcc.net
> Cc:	zmailer@nic.funet.fi
> Subject:	Re: error in ORCPT reported by Sendmail 8.8.6 (again)
> 
> > Hello again.. I didn't get any replies on this so I thought I'd try
> > again..   This time a few users are complaining that they can't send
> > email to  rbcds.com
> > They get back the following error message:
> > 
> > <smtp rbcds.com nross@rbcds.com 60001>: ...\
> > 	<<- RCPT To:<nross@rbcds.com> NOTIFY=FAILURE,DELAY
> ORCPT=rfc822;nross@rbcds.com
> > 	->> 501 <nross@rbcds.com>... Syntax error in ORCPT parameter
> value (this is abnormal, investigate!)
> 
> 
> 	I am also seeing it here and there.
> 	Right now the leading contester for the theory is that
> 	the target system has a Cisco PIX firewall in front of
> 	it, and it scrambles ORCPT parameter string :-(
> 
> 	Can you find out if they have that FW product, and if so,
> 	if they could turn off the DSN from the EHLO capability
> 	reports ?
>  
> /Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
> 
> > So I went through the zmailer logs and sure enough this is what I
> found:
> > 
> > > 05820T0078442307#       (Connecting to `mx1.rbcds.com'
> > > [206.116.151.21] Tue Feb  3 14:45:07 1998)
> > > 05820T0078542312r       220 nic.rbcds.com ESMTP Sendmail
> 8.8.6/8.8.6; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 16:45:12 -0500 (EST)
> > > 05820T0078642312w       EHLO gate4.mcc.net
> > > 05820T0078742312r       250-nic.rbcds.com Hello gate4.mcc.net
> [207.245.25.250], pleased to meet you
> > > 05820T0078842312r       250-EXPN
> > > 05820T0078942312r       250-VERB
> > > 05820T0079042312r       250-8BITMIME
> > > 05820T0079142312r       250-SIZE 1500000
> > > 05820T0079242312r       250-DSN
> > > 05820T0079342312r       250-ONEX
> > > 05820T0079442312r       250-ETRN
> > > 05820T0079542312r       250-XUSR
> > > 05820T0079642312r       250 HELP
> > > 05820T0079742312#       421765-29765:
> <23E5834B53F9D011A501006097C0F7F3130D92@A05EX003.metronet.ca>
> > > 05820T0079842312w       MAIL From:<JonathanWismark@metronet.ca>
> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=1427 RET=FULL
> > > 05820T0079942313r       250 <JonathanWismark@metronet.ca>...
> Sender ok
> > > 05820T0080042313w       RCPT To:<lkazaz@rbcds.com>
> NOTIFY=FAILURE,DELAY ORCPT=rfc822;lkazaz@rbcds.com
> > > 05820T0080142313r       501 <lkazaz@rbcds.com>... Syntax error in
> ORCPT parameter value
> 
> 
> > I've looked up RFC 1891 and the ORCPT param looks ok to me. Can
> anyone
> > else here see why sendmail 8.8.6 would be complaining?
> > 
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