Firewall Question

[Jim Bonnet]

Tom- Thanks for the reply. I have specifically disabled identd on my 
imap server because many of our users are behind firewalls that don't 
pass identd.

I have also enabled for the heck of it identd on my firewall.. This 
didnt change anything.

It is not a consisstant port, it is like other services, it is picking a 
random really high port.

I'll read thru that info you sent.

Im not waiting for the ident timeout anymore after turning it off on the 
  server. What I do see is that when IMAPS tries to do whatever he's 
doing making a connection back to me on a blocked port is that the next 
time I check a imap mailbox it needs to re-authenticate.

Thanks alot-
Jim



tom wrote:
> Greets list, Jim;
> 
> Jim Bonnet <jimbo at sysdump.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Could someone enlighten me on the finer aspects of firewalling.
> 
> 
> I'll try.  Although I'm a comparitive newbie, I think I can expand
> on your question a little, from what little I know.  I hope not
> to make any mistakes, but I'm sure we'll hear about it here :)