Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

Philip Hazel wrote:

> Do you think I should change the default to 5s?

Yes. 5s should be enough for >99% of the connections, for the remainder:
Ident is (usually) non-critical for smtp.

I agree with the others that it would even not do big harm if ident
would be disabled by default, but I'm reluctant to give up a possible
diagnostic help, even if the probability for helpfulness is quite low
nowadays.