Re: And Ident - port 113

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Zitat von li...@rhsoft.net:

Am 05.12.2014 um 14:00 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:

I also have ident - port 113 open on the firewall.  But not only is it
not open on the server's firewall, I don't see a listen for it with
'netstat -na|grep113'

I do recall that ident was one thing some MTAs wanted.  Is that still
so?  And if so, should I see a listen on it?

how is *that* related to mail?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident_protocol

that is all *not* postfix related and for incoming mail you don#t need anything than port 25

Regards

Andreas

There was a time some 20 years ago where E-Mail was a Unix thing only, where servers try to identify the remote connecting with a "ident" call and stall the connection until either succeed or timeout. This is ancient behaviour not seen anymore, we have disabled the reject for ident some 3 years ago.

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