sending mail with attachments always fail (FreeBSD/pf)

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Saturday, November 21, 2009 a las 08:59:12PM +0600, Victor Lyapunov escribió:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have production network with FreeBSD box acting as firewall. The
> problem emerge as soon as users send mail with attachments. (Sending
> mail without attachments always succeeds). Basically, when a user
> tries to send a message, only part of it transmitted before connection
> is interrupted and sending fails. The problem persists only when pf is
> enabled.

I think concerning TCP/IP there is no diff between a mail with or w/o
attachment, it is just talking SMTP to a remote server and only the
size, i.e, the number of IP pkgs, differs; the content is anyway;

> My ruleset:
> scrub in all fragment reassemble
> block drop on em0 all
> pass inet proto tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port = smtp flags S/SA keep state
> pass inet proto tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port = pop3 flags S/SA keep state
> pass inet proto tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port = imap flags S/SA keep state
> pass inet proto tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port = smtps flags S/SA
> keep state
> pass inet proto tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port = pop3s flags S/SA
> keep state
> pass proto udp from any to any port = domain keep state

I never used S/SA as flags in my rules, only S. More I can' see.
HIH (if not watch with some tcpdump(1) what's going on between the NIC
and the remote server).

	matthias

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