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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Thomas J Balfe <tbalfe@tioga.com>
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On Wed, 15 May 1996, Thomas J Balfe wrote:

> >   Here's problably what happens:
> > 
> >   - you iniatate connect to some server
> >   - server sends ident query
> >   - you close your connect to server
> >   - ident query arrives but socket doesn't exist
> 
> 
> This never used to happen with sendmail 8.6.12, but with 8.7.5 it seems 
> to happen. I got sendmail from ftp.cert.org, although I don't want to go 
> back to 8.6.12...hmmm

  It isn't serious.  ident(d) shouldn't be trusted anyways.

Tom