sendmail ident

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 09:00 am, Gerald Combs wrote:

> How about disabling it by default (or not even implementing it) in the
> first place?  

That would be up to the packagers who supply the sendmail.cf file for your 
distribution.  It's an optional feature, and there are docs that discuss it's 
potential usefulness on the sendmail site.

Remember that sendmail has been the defacto standard for internet mail almost 
as long as there's been an internet.  Some of it's conventions may seem 
archaic to the neophyte, but there are reasons that they are there.

If something in the environment of the 'net, like the usefulnes of ident, 
sendmail admins are expected to be able to understand the need to change 
their tuning and configuration accordingly.