I don't know the specifics, but Sendmail (www.sendmail.org) versions 8 and
later will IDENT to attempt to verify mail connections. You can modify
this option in the sendmail.cf file but most people don't bother. I think
IDENT is used for informational purposes only, unless your running sendmail
in paranoid mode. IDENT isn't typically relied on because it doesn't work
with some OS's and most firewalls will block it by default. Do a search
for IDENT on sendmail's website and you can get the specific details.
Hope this helps,
Rob
At 10:12 AM 2/26/00 -0800, you wrote:
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>Can someone give me a hint where to find information about ident or tell me
>what it is and how it is used. I'm finding log entries for ident which
>most often seem to follow "smtp rejected" log entries from the same host,
>which result from using the MAPS features of the email proxy (3.02 pro).
>
>I'm speculating that after MAPS rejects the smtp connection, the
>administrator is performing a query on my gnatbox in an attempt to
>determine why his mail connections are rejected.
>
>Feb 25 10:16:58 192.168.2.254 FILTER: Remote access filter accepts :
>TCP ed0 [x.x.128.19/2734]->[x.x.242.112/113] l=0 f=0x2.
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