[TriLUG] Postfix POP3 delay question

[Jason Faulkner]

It's not useless, an identd is supposed to keep users from spoofing
uid's on your server (I think).

I don't see how it'd be useful for mail servers, though.


On 7/18/06, Jason <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
> 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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