Re: Two questions: Return-Path rewriting and AUTH packets

[thomas . erskine-dated-13f024134cc321ea]

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Mike van der Velden wrote:

[snip]
> Second, the firewall people have started to complain that ever since the
> switch-over to qmail, they are seeing a lot of "auth" packets to and
> from the qmail server to various remote sites.  They want to know what
> is going on.  What sort of extra packets does qmail send out?  Are some
> of these "auth" communications initiated by outside systems?

If you don't want tcpserver to do ident queries (you are using tcpserver,
aren't you?), add the "-R" option.

> If I've missed something in the FAQs or docs, I apologize.  Please point
> me in the right direction.
> 
> Mike van der Velden
> 

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