Re: [exim] RFC1413 callout

Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:

> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Tony Finch wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 christoph.kliemt@??? wrote:
>> >
>> > On the other hand... it does not hurt. ;-)
>> On the contrary, we turned it off because it is useless and because
>> it caused complaints from users with personal firewalls.
>
> But another bit of "we" <grin> has (have?) not turned it off.

Never touch a runing system? ;-)

[...]

> But in practice, I have to admit that I cannot recall if this has
> ever actually happened.

I did not ever receive any useable information from ident. Maybe it is
an option in a larger,pure unix LAN. But to the outside?

But as long it can be turned off.. it does not hurt.

Christoph