On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:59:05PM +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> +++ Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [exim-users] <03/02/02 10:44 -0200>:
> > Some connection from some ISPs who the hello message in a few seconds
> > and others have to wait 30 sec for smtp message.
>
> 30 seconds suggests a delay waiting for identd. The variable in exim you
> need is, I think, rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s
>
> That, and set your firewall to reject instead of drop identd packets.
If some connections are fine, then it sounds like it's the other ends'
firewalls that are dropping the identd packets.