On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> The implementation I did for smail actually did the ident lookup
> *after* sending the banner since this seemed to me to have fewer
> problems with hitting timeouts....
Yes, but in Exim you don't always want to send the banner! It might be
checking the result of the rfc1413 lookup and then wanting to refuse
service.
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