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List:       exim-users
Subject:    Re: Happy new exim user with questions
From:       John Henders <jhenders () bogon ! com>
Date:       1997-10-28 0:51:29
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On Mon, Oct 27/97, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually this was indeed only on unix boxes.  There's a packet
> filter in between my workstation and the mail server, and none of
> the attempted ident lookups actually get to my machine -- so they
> time out, but meanwhile, the program attempting to send email is
> twiddling its thumbs for sixty seconds.

Then your packet filter is doing the wrong thing. It shouldn't leave
unwanted connections hanging, it should refuse them.

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