sending mail with attachments always fails (FreeBSD/pf)

olli hauer ohauer at gmx.de
Sat Nov 21 19:25:21 UTC 2009


Victor Lyapunov wrote:
> Thanks for your answer, olli.
> 
> As i send mail not from my freebsd server, but rather from the clients
> on the local network, so here's what i did:
> 
> my pf.conf:
> set loginterface pflog0
> set block-policy drop
> set skip on lo0
> block drop log on em0 all
> pass log inet proto tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port {smtp, pop3,
> imap, smtps, pop3s} flags S/SA keep state
> pass log proto udp from any to any port = domain keep state
> 
> 
> # tcpdump -net -i pflog0
> Now i went to a windows computer and tried to send an email with
> attachment to gmail.com (sending failed at 2%)
> 
> here's what i got in my pflog:
> 
> rule 4/0(match): pass in on em0: (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 19860, offset
> 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 48) 192.168.0.5.1822 >
> 209.85.129.111.465: [|tcp]


> rule 4/0(match): pass out on em0: (tos 0x0, ttl 127, id 19860, offset
> 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 48) 192.168.0.5.1822 >
> 209.85.129.111.465:  tcp 28 [bad hdr length 0 - too short, < 20]

why is the [DF] bit set?

can you try with the following pf option
scrub all no-df



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