[lug] Can't send email to uswest domain

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Wed Dec 13 15:31:08 MST 2000


On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:25:39AM -0700, George Sexton wrote:
> If you are firewalling your machine, make sure you let the auth protocol
> through to the identd daemon. Many mail hosts can exhibit lots of strange
> behaviors if the sender isn't running identd.

But of course, you can always point out to anyone running a mail server
that requires you to ident that they're not in compliance with the RFC's
for mail services. 

I really dislike it when sysadmins try to secure services that were
never designed to be secure.  :) :) :)

-- 
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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