Re: sendmail ident

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 09:00 am, Gerald Combs wrote:

How about disabling it by default (or not even implementing it) in the first place?

That would be up to the packagers who supply the sendmail.cf file for your distribution. It's an optional feature, and there are docs that discuss it's potential usefulness on the sendmail site.

Remember that sendmail has been the defacto standard for internet mail almost as long as there's been an internet. Some of it's conventions may seem archaic to the neophyte, but there are reasons that they are there.

If something in the environment of the 'net, like the usefulnes of ident, sendmail admins are expected to be able to understand the need to change their tuning and configuration accordingly.