Re: [Exim] Setting the IP address

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Author: Kirill Miazine
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To: Morten Primdahl
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Setting the IP address
* Morten Primdahl <morten@???> [20020117 12:43]:
> Hi. I have a machine with 4 IP addresses (aliases), exim uses
> the one bound to eth0:2 rather than just eth0 it seems.
>
> Received: from www.job2000.dk ([129.142.225.157]) by mail.it-c.dk
>     (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03979 for <morten@???>; Thu,
>     17 Jan 2002 12:11:36 +0100

>
> [root@job2000 etc]# host www.job2000.dk
> www.job2000.dk. has address 129.142.225.154
>
> Where does exim get the IP address from? I would expect /etc/hosts
> or a DNS lookup. The docs hint uname, but I cannot see any relation
> between my uname -a and the IP exim uses.
>
> Is there a way I can explicitly set the IP address?


There's an options called 'interface' with the smtp transport. Use it.

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Kirill