Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
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In Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 or Forefront TMG 2010, you enable SMTP filtering.
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An SMTP client communicates with an SMTP server through ISA Server 2006 or Forefront TMG 2010.
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The SMTP client uses one of the following verbs in its conversation with the SMTP server:
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TLS
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STARTTLS
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X-AnonymousTLS
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In this scenario, ISA Server 2006 or Forefront TMG 2010 resets the connection to the SMTP client when the SMTP server closes its connection to ISA Server or Forefront TMG 2010 with a TCP FIN packet. This behavior can cause some specific SMTP client applications to report that message delivery failed even though messages are sent correctly.
In ISA logging, you see the following result code for this connection:0x80074e24 FWX_E_CONNECTION_KILLED
Cause
By design, the connection to the SMTP client is reset when the SMTP server closes its connection to ISA Server or Forefront TMG 2010. This is because ISA Server or Forefront TMG 2010 cannot inspect the SMTP traffic for the SMTPÂ QUIT command when the traffic is encrypted. However, this behavior can cause specific SMTP client applications to report errors.
Resolution
A hotfix is now available to avoid incorrect error reports. This hotfix allows the default behavior to be changed so that ISA Server returns a TCP FIN packet to the SMTP client instead of a RESET packet when the SMTP server closes the TCP connection with a TCP FIN packet. To change the default behavior after you install this hotfix, you have to run a script on the ISA Server computer.
To apply this hotfix, follow these steps:-
Download and then install the hotfix package that is mentioned in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
959357 Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: October 29, 2008 Note: If you are running Forefront TMG 2010, copy the script from step 2 into a Notepad file and save it. Open command prompt with elevated privilege and then run the script (ie: cscript smtp.vbs).
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Start Notepad, and then copy the following script into a Notepad file.
Const SE_VPS_GUID = "{143F5698-103B-12D4-FF34-1F34767DEabc}"
Const SE_VPS_NAME = "GracefulPassthroughServerShutdown" Const SE_VPS_VALUE = true Sub SetValue() ' Create the root obect. Dim root ' The FPCLib.FPC root object Set root = CreateObject("FPC.Root") 'Declare the other objects needed. Dim array ' An FPCArray object Dim VendorSets ' An FPCVendorParametersSets collection Dim VendorSet ' An FPCVendorParametersSet object ' Get references to the array object ' and the network rules collection. Set array = root.GetContainingArray Set VendorSets = array.VendorParametersSets On Error Resume Next Set VendorSet = VendorSets.Item( SE_VPS_GUID ) If Err.Number <> 0 Then Err.Clear ' Add the item Set VendorSet = VendorSets.Add( SE_VPS_GUID ) CheckError WScript.Echo "New VendorSet added... " & VendorSet.Name Else WScript.Echo "Existing VendorSet found... value- " & VendorSet.Value(SE_VPS_NAME) End If if VendorSet.Value(SE_VPS_NAME) <> SE_VPS_VALUE Then Err.Clear VendorSet.Value(SE_VPS_NAME) = SE_VPS_VALUE If Err.Number <> 0 Then CheckError Else VendorSets.Save false, true CheckError If Err.Number = 0 Then WScript.Echo "Done with " & SE_VPS_NAME & ", saved!" End If End If Else WScript.Echo "Done with " & SE_VPS_NAME & ", no change!" End If End Sub Sub CheckError() If Err.Number <> 0 Then WScript.Echo "An error occurred: 0x" & Hex(Err.Number) & " " & Err.Description Err.Clear End If End Sub SetValue -
Save the file as a Microsoft Visual Basic script file by using the .vbs file name extension.
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Double-click the .vbs file to run the script.
Note If you want to revert to the default behavior, change the following line of the script:
Const SE_VPS_VALUE = true
Change this line to the following:
Const SE_VPS_VALUE = false
Then, rerun the script on the ISA Server or Forefront TMG computer.
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates