On 11 Mar 2005 at 15:16, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:23:10PM -0000, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> > On 11 Mar 2005 at 14:03, Tony Finch wrote:
> > > I expect you are doing RFC 1413 ident checks, and the mailserver which is
> > > performing the callback to you has incompetently firewalled off identd and
> > > has failed to adjust the callback timeout to compensate for this fact.
> > I can't say that I am doing ident checks - not wittingly anyway -
> > although my conf has the following;
>
> I assume that this is still the same installation that I set up all those
> many moons ago, in which case it probably would be doing ident checking of
> the remote host. Indeed. I do 'ave a test running of exim v4.43 but I need some new
hardware before I go live. This works fine on that system by the way.
I can send mail without any problems from my 4.43 lab.
> > receiver_verify
> > headers_sender_verify
> > sender_verify
> > sender_verify_reject > None of those. > set rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s Ouch ...was I meant to put that in the main section? >exiwhat LOG: 0 PANIC DIE
Exim configuration error
main option "set" unknown in line 203
No exim process data
> > That said I don't want expose myself because of a someone else's mis-
> > configured firewall.
>
> Unfortunately, in this kind of thing - this is more and more often the case... They did say they had extended the timeout period but that will have
nill effect if it their server not respond until it receives it an
smtp banner. > MBM Thanx.
Dp.
