On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 18:16, David Talkington wrote:
> Michael George wrote:
>
> >We just started a lease on our own server on Rackspace.com for doing our web
> >and mail serving. However, whenever we fetch mail from the office, we have
> >about a 20-30s delay before the transfer starts.
>
> Drop all traffic to port 113 on the floor (to avoid annoying ident
> timeouts)
"Dropping" all traffic (via the DROP rule, as opposed to REJECT) is what
causes ident timeouts. To avoid them, the REJECT rule is proper.
Since UW-IMAP appears to configure reverse lookups (of any type) at
build time, Michael might want to consider a more flexible (and secure)
mail system, like Courier (I'm starting to say that a lot...)
http://www.courier-mta.org/
Apt-get-able from http://www.dragonsdawn.net/apt/
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