RE: [courier-users] Re: Connection to port 113

[Bowie B. <Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com>]

What purpose does it serve to query a Windows machine for identd?  Most of
the client machines will be running Outlook Express on some version of
Windows.  The ones who aren't using Outlook Express will be using some other
Windows email client.  I opened the port on the firewall and that definitely
sped up the connections, but if I don't really need it, I would rather not
have yet another open port on the firewall.

Also, how can I configure Outlook Express to do some form of secure
authentication with Courier using userdb authentication via authdaemon?  I
tried every combination of settings that I could think of in both OE and the
esmtpd configuration file and had no luck.

Bowie

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sam Varshavchik [SMTP:mr...@co...]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:12 PM
> To:	Courier-Users (E-mail)
> Subject:	[courier-users] Re: Connection to port 113
> 
> Bowie Bailey writes: 
> 
> > I appreciate the quick response to my last question.  Now I've got
> another
> > one. 
> > 
> > Why is my mailserver trying to open a connection back to port 113
> whenever I
> 
> This is identd. 
> 
> > make an SMTP connection?  I am not using any authentication.  This is
> > causing the SMTP connection to take about 30 seconds since my firewall
> is
> > denying the connection to 113.  Is there a setting that I may have
> turned on
> > by accident?
> 
> No, this is the default configuration.  See the esmtp configuration file, 
> but you should really fix your firewall.  identd serves a useful purpose. 
> 
> -- 
> Sam 
> 
> 
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