Originally posted here by nebulus200
[B]DjM:

Thanks for the update, would have given you some green for it but apparently anticode thinks I have been too nice to you. On one note, why not just turn off the ident part of sendmail rather than have your firewall reject it?
When people say "turn off," the net effect is that the connection's rejected - so it's essentially the same thing... the difference being that rejecting it at the firewall keeps it from even entering the network -- but it should be rejected (ie. told the connection's refused) rather than dropped (ie. ignored), so-as to speed up the outgoing SMTP process.

...then again, timeout refers to "outgoing request," so it's sendmail's return ident to an incoming SMTP request. So... yeah, exactly opposite. *smacks self in head*