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Autor: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:44:56PM +0000, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> 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


Sorry, the main section command is:
rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s

No "set" to be typed into the configuration file.

>>> 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.


They've still got too short a timeout then.

Cheers

MBM

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