Author: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Date: To: Jeroen van Aart CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Pine and smtp authentication
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 17:35 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > I am sorry for omitting the version. Telnetting to port 25 tells me it
> is ESMTP Exim 4.50. I have set the timeout to 5 seconds, which hopefully
> should fix this.
that's fine, most real ident servers should respond within 5 seconds.
you should tell your user to fix his firewall, though. dropping packets
causes these kinds of problems all the time -- it's much better to
reject unwanted packets. it will also enable him to send messages in
less than a second altogether.
