[TriLUG] Postfix POP3 delay question

[Jason]

as far as I know, Its an absolutely useless/obsolete  protocol, either disable it on your imap/pop 
server, or set your firewall if you have one to reset (NOT drop) any ident packets that come in.

Jason
 
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:48:41PM -0400, Douglas Ward wrote:
> Thank you for this information.  Repercussions?
> 
> On 7/18/06, Jason <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
> >
> >the dreaded IDENT!!!
> >auth            113/tcp         authentication tap ident # Authentication
> >
> >disable it!
> >
> >
> >Jason
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Douglas Ward
> >wrote:
> >> I have implemented a postfix mail server and noticed that everyone who
> >tries
> >> to download messages waits 30 seconds before the server responds.  It
> >makes
> >> no difference if there are five or 100 messages to download.  It seems
> >like
> >> postfix has a delay built into it.  Is there a setting that I have
> >missed?
> >> Thanks!
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