[linux-help] Re: sendmail - delay

[Weqaar Ali Janjua <wxjanjua@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sudharsha,
    The parameter for sendmail.cf is "Orident=0" , well ur problem is not 
exactly with sendmail, its with pop/110 and more precisely Identd is creating 
the problem. Identd is the server that helps to properly identify you on your 
(or someone else's) Linux workstation. identd operates by looking up specific 
TCP/IP  connections and returning the user name of the process owning the con-
nection.   It  can  optionally  return  other  information instead of a user 
name, refer to the URL:  http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/identd.html
for more info or "man identd" !
Your pop daemon is configured(I suppose) to use identd, whenever a client 
connects to the pop process, it looks for the Ident process running on the 
client to grab more authentication info other than the username/passwd, most 
of the clients dont run identD so the identD waits for response from the 
client, according to the timeout value, and then timesout. 
Did u try disabling/shutting down IdentD on your machine???
----------------------------------
A DREAM IS A GOAL WITH A DEADLINE!
Weqaar Ali Janjua
B.S.Computer Engineering
WSU
----------------------------------

>===== Original Message From linux-help@xxxxxxxxx =====
>Hi Ali,
>thank you for your information.
>I tried disabling oriden=0;
>but un fortunatly it doesn't work
>what are the man pages you are refering to?
>can you tell me in more detailed way pls
>We have a deadline by sat day.
>we are using send mail 8.9.3
>what should I do with these inetd(8)/inetd.conf(8)
>its not clear to me can you explain.
>pls help me
>
>Thank you .
>Regards,
>Sudharsha.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Weqaar Ali Janjua <wxjanjua@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:54 AM
>Subject: [linux-help] Re: sendmail - delay
>
>
>>
>>Hello,
>>   Well this problem is not with sendmail as port 110 is used by POP(by
>>default) not by SMTP. Disabling IDENT should solve ur problem. Disable
>identd
>>on ur machine and maybe u have to make some changes to the following
>>conf/files:
>>The easiest way is to read the following manpages but disabling identD
>should
>>work:
>>- inetd(8)
>>- inetd.conf(8)
>>- hosts_access(5)
>>- tcpd(8)
>>Its a better idea to disable ident with sendmail. If u r not using sendmail
>>8.6.5 or earlier try diabling IDENT by putting the following line in ur
>>sendmail.cf and restarting sendmail:
>>
>>Orident=0
>>
>>Let me know if it helps or not.
>>Regards,
>>Weqaar Ali Janjua
>>B.E.C.E
>>WSU
>>
>>>===== Original Message From Sudharsha <adithya@xxxxxxxxx> =====
>>>Hi,
>>>Thanks for the reply.
>>>yes my problem is we setup a mailserver using sendmail.
>>>the pop server is Qpop.
>>>now when we connect to the mail server from the clients machine to check
>mail
>>>using eudora or outlook express it takes a very long time to authonticate
>and
>>eudora goes on a time out.
>>>but this is only from the internal network.
>>>Once you come through the inter net to chek mail on the same server it s
>ok
>>no time outs.
>>>When telneted to the 110 port server replys quickly
>>>Then when i enter the user it replys ok quickly but when i enter the
>password
>>it takes a very very long time to authonticate the password.
>>>we have two network cards in this one is a direct Ip and the other is a
>local
>>ip both cards goes to the same hub as well.
>>>we also have Ip masq enable on this.
>>>so when we remove the network cable from the internet ip assigned network
>>card the internal clients can chek mail with out no problems at all.
>>>now the clients are configured to connect to the locall ip as the SMTP
>>server.
>>>Hope I have given enough details.
>>>pls reply me soon.
>>>thanks again.
>>>regards,
>>>Sudharsha
>>>Sudharsha Adithya Wijesinghe.
>>>Customer relationship officer.
>>>Datamini Lanka (pte) Ltd.
>>>adithya@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>----------------------------------
>>A DREAM IS A GOAL WITH A DEADLINE!
>>Weqaar Ali Janjua
>>B.S.Computer Engineering
>>WSU
>>----------------------------------
>>
>>
>>-- This is the linux-help@xxxxxxxxx list.  To unsubscribe,
>>visit http://tmp2.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi
>>
>>
>
>
>-- This is the linux-help@xxxxxxxxx list.  To unsubscribe,
>visit http://tmp2.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi

----------------------------------
A DREAM IS A GOAL WITH A DEADLINE!
Weqaar Ali Janjua
B.S.Computer Engineering
WSU
----------------------------------


-- This is the linux-help@xxxxxxxxx list.  To unsubscribe,
visit http://tmp2.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi