RE: Impact on qmail of no $TCPREMOTEINFO / IDENT ?

2000-04-13 Thread Dave Kitabjian
Thanks for the info. >Why don't you try it - it's very easy to do. I know it's easy to do. Actually, we've had the -R flag on tcpserver for a couple of months now. And I haven't *observed* any negative side effects. But qmail is a complex system, so there could be side effects going on that I wo

Re: Impact on qmail of no $TCPREMOTEINFO / IDENT ?

2000-04-12 Thread markd
> And how would one do that? Does it show up when you run qmail-smtpd with > tcpserver's -v option? According to the man pages: ... tcpserver sets up several environment variables, as described in tcp-environ(5). > > In an SMTP relay environment, such as an ISP or a corporate ou

RE: Impact on qmail of no $TCPREMOTEINFO / IDENT ?

2000-04-12 Thread Dave Kitabjian
Thanks for the reply. >> The man pages say qmail-smtpd required $TCPREMOTEINFO, but it doesn't >Really? Where? I didn't see that and the code in qmail-smtpd.c suggests >that it's optional. Hmm. Well, the qmail-smtpd man page says: "... qmail-smtpd must be supplied several en

Re: Impact on qmail of no $TCPREMOTEINFO / IDENT ?

2000-04-12 Thread markd
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:56:44PM -0400, Dave Kitabjian wrote: > I've researched $TCPREMOTEINFO and "ident lookups". And, for everyone > else's benefit, I included the useful snippets below. > > --> My question is, what impact is there on qmail of not having > $TCPREMOTEINFO available? It doesn

Impact on qmail of no $TCPREMOTEINFO / IDENT ?

2000-04-12 Thread Dave Kitabjian
I've researched $TCPREMOTEINFO and "ident lookups". And, for everyone else's benefit, I included the useful snippets below. --> My question is, what impact is there on qmail of not having $TCPREMOTEINFO available? We are switching to all Cisco Pix firewalls which, unlike our previous firewalls,