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New Interim answer
My Exchange server here at work is behind a PIX, and then a Nexland DSL router with firewalling capabilities. At first I thought the PIX "fixup smtp" might be damaging the conversation somehow, but of course I turned that off long ago (and it shouldn't affect outbound anyway).

Answer: The Nexland has a setting:

Allow IDENT Port []Enable []Disable Note: Makes port 113 seem closed, not stealth

Setting this to 'Enable' fixed the problem.

I still need to find out now how to get Exim to not care whether this is set or not, because I'm sure I'm not the only one who has had this set, and I'd rather not miss anyone else's valid mail.

Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
New Final answer
There's a setting for your exim.conf file to fix this for all hosts:

rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s

"0s" turns identd probing off completely. I know because I had to make a mad dash just now to get Papa John's email server to actually speak to me. :)

Mmmmm. Italian sausage....

Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
New Schweet...
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     Debian + Exim woe: - (tseliot) - (7)
         More info... - (tseliot) - (3)
             Interim answer - (tseliot) - (2)
                 Final answer - (tseliot) - (1)
                     Schweet... - (folkert)
         Related question on DNS - (tseliot) - (2)
             Put an entry in /etc/hosts - (folkert) - (1)
                 Yes, that should work for this instance. Thanks. - (tseliot)

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