On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> 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.
I do not like the idea of completely disabling by default, because this
would be much more incompatible than just reducing the timeout. It's
probably an "Exim 5" thing. (I hope to have retired before Exim 5, BTW.)
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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