Greetings:

Why is the sendmail included with NetBSD or built with pkgsrc, compiled
with IDENT?  Very few sites run IDENT daemons anyone, especially when
most individual users use e-mail from their own standalone workstations
(Win/Mac/Unix), and may also be behind firewalls that block the IDENT
port.  And IDENT is so easy to fake, that it cannot be trusted.  So what
is the point of the extra overhead of having sendmail make an IDENT socket
connection back to a remote computer, everytime that computer makes an
SMTP socket connection to it?

Although sendmail can easily be compiled from source on NetBSD, without
IDENT support, would it not be better to distribute, from the NetBSD
binaries or pkgsrc, a NetBSD port of sendmail without the IDENT?

Alicia.