Before you peek, see if you can solve this old chestnut:
- Eudora: “…conflict with WorldMail 3’s ability to use SMTP authentication. Other issues may include, receiving multiple copies of the same message in your customers mailboxes…”
- Exim: “I am using Exim 4.10 on OS X Server 10.2.2. I cannot get relaying with SMTP_AUTH to work…”
- IBM Lotus: “…inbound SMTP server fails to receive email from the Internet. Telnetting to the Domino server’s Port 25 fails with no definitive error message.”
- Microsoft: “I have a newly installed Exchange Server 2000 behind my Pix and did receive an error from a mail client when trying to connect to the Exchange server…”
While our answer has been posted here since September 2004, you’ll find a concise response we’re not allowed to run here.
Did you get the right answer? Count yourself among the old dogs who’ve seen all the tricks.

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August 26th, 2005 at 11:30 am
cbreaker
“fixup smtp” is evil! I thought my qmail server was getting DoS-ed. Turns out, my PIX was eating all of my SMTP connections and hosing my server. Evil!
September 9th, 2005 at 9:17 am
Chris Wage
Heh. If I had a nickel for every time.
–Chris “220 ***************************200**************00**********************************” Wage