sendmail ident

[Jonathan Hutchins]

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.)