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JG's avatar
JG
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May 18, 2014

iRule for SMTP: Passing Client IP Addr to backend mail servers

When SNATs are used for a virtual server, the backend SMTP servers cannot get the client IP address. This irule is intended to replace the string after "EHLO" or "HELO" in mail client initiation with...
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John_Alam_45640's avatar
John_Alam_45640
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May 19, 2014

Take out the \r\n from the expression. The (.*) should match that as well.

STREAM::expression {@^EHLO.*@@ @^HELO.*@@}

Here is an example: 

(System32) 30 % regexp {EHLO.*} "EHLO 1.1.1.1\r\n" var1
1
(System32) 31 % puts $var1
EHLO 1.1.1.1

(System32) 32 %