[ale] identd + sendmail

[Mike Millson]

The way I understand it, sendmail sends an auth request to clients or
other MTAs that connect to it. It will wait 5 seconds by default for a
reply. You can turn this off in the sendmail config file by setting the
ident wait time to 0. So, I was wondering if there are any mail systems
out there that require a valid auth response or they will reject email
from your MTA. It hasn't happened to me so far. It seems that all the
mail systems will still deliver mail, even if they don't get an auth
response. So it sounds like it's irrelevant.

The weird thing is I set the ident wait time to 0, but my MTA still
sends out an auth request when a client on my LAN pulls email. So,
either sendmail is refusing to turn of ident or maybe the pop3 daemon is
issuing the ident??? I couldn't tell what/why this was happening, but I
guess it isn't a big deal to have ident requests on the LAN.

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 18:36, Adrin wrote:
> I think the newer system use xinetd and not inetd.  I don't see why it would make that
> much a difference anyway weither or not you were running it with sendmail. Isn't sendmail
> a daemon?
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Mike
> > Millson
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:22 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] identd + sendmail
> >
> >
> > Is it recommended to run or not run identd on a box running sendmail?
> >
> > I have been using sendmail for a while and not running identd w/o any
> > apparent issues, so I'm guessing it isn't needed, but is not running it
> > limiting in any way? Is there a best practice regarding this?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Mike
> >
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