Re: Sendmail and pmtu discovery

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Kai Schaetzl wrote:

My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP
traffic have many "Connection Reset" entries in our logs:

Could somebody explain why ICMP might play a role in mail delivery?

It is required for any TCP conversation, unless as a matter of luck you happen to have the same MTU capability across the whole path - or the end points restrict their MTUs arbitrarily to a size that everything can handle.

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  Les Mikesell
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