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.)