Re: Watchguard firewall problem with Outlook Express 6/Hotmail interfacing

From: russandsandy (russandsandy@no.slimey.spammers.attbi.noteven.com)
Date: 11/01/02 

From: "russandsandy" <russandsandy@no.slimey.spammers.attbi.noteven.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 03:06:56 GMT

The real problem is the website developers not sticking to standards.

RT

"Shaddy Baddah" <Shaddy.Baddah@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:d28c8e8.0210301959.6607f57f@posting.google.com...
> Nig <nig@nigs.niet> wrote in message news:<3DBEF43B.8EA0CEFD@nigs.niet>...
> > > It seems now that any email sent via Express/Hotmail, is not saved in
Sent
> > > Items, regardless of the Options setting. The emails are delivered,
but not
> > > saved, and no feedback given to warn of this. If I use an alternative
> > > Internet capable network, this works fine on the same PC. It was also
> > > working pre-Watchguard firewall.
> >
> > I don't use Hotmail so don't know the mechanism that they use to save
> > messages, but the http proxy on Watchguard boxen has quite a lot of
> > options to block javascript, java, active-x, etc., as well as many other
> > settings. It may be that the admin that installed the WG has left these
> > settings at default and they are having an effect on Hotmail.
> >
> > It's only a thought. The http filter on the Watchguard doesn't have
> > these options and I know that Hotmail works OK thru' this as colleagues
> > do use it without any problems.
>
> Thanks for your response. I have some good news. The network
> administrators have solved the problem. It seems there is a "Remove
> unknown headers" (or similar) option on the firewall that must be
> disabled to prevent this from happening. This is according to the
> network administrator, so I don't know for sure, but would suggest
> that it may also be possible to extend the known headers list to
> include those used by the Outlook Express/Hotmail interface.
> Excellent.

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