On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> Personally I'd prefer "p=#" in the received lines and 'exim -bh 1.2.3.4
> 1222' as the optional command line argument.
The problem with
exim -bh 1.2.3.4 1222
and
exim ... -oMa 1.2.3.4 1222
is that other command-line options may follow. It may be ambiguous as to
whether the 1222 is the port or another option. Actually in the second
case, the command
exim -oMa 1.2.3.4 1222
is currently perfectly legal. It means "take a message for the local
user whose login id is '1222', and pretend the message came from
1.2.3.4".
So I don't think I can do that.
For recording addresses, note that it isn't only the received lines,
it's also the <= and => lines in the log, and other log lines where host
addresses are mentioned (e.g. entries in the reject log). Tacking the
port onto the IP address somehow (after all, they are really two parts
of the same piece of information) is a clean way to solve all these
problems.
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