[Gllug] slightly ot: confused network

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:45:12PM +0000, Minty wrote:
> So it's not a huge problem, but I am curious.  Why is the mailserver
> trying to ident the client?  Do I have some half arse authentication
> I've messed up?

It's just what mail servers do.  You can sometimes see an "IDENT"
field in the Received header, which is where this information ends up.

On exim do this to disable ident lookups:

rfc1413_query_timeout = 0

Rich.

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