sendmail ident
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Tue May 31 08:32:20 CDT 2005
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:11 am, Gerald Combs wrote:
> It's also a major performance hit. Most mail servers (and clients)
> these days are behind firewalls. The ident request will get dropped
> nearly 100% of the time, resulting in a long pause while the attempt
> times out.
Default is 5 seconds.
> I really wish Sendmail had a
> FEATURE(`stop_pretending_its_still_1983')
> configuration option.
How about
define(`confTO_IDENT',`0')dnl
for M4, or
O Timeout.ident=0
for the raw sendmail.cf?
(That'll turn it off.)
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