On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> Now I edit inetd.conf to the following:
>
> smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/exim exim -bs \
> -oMa 1.2.3.4
Nope. You can't override the IP address on a real TCP/IP connection. I
thought the manual said that, but I see that it does not appear to,
though it does say
-oMa <host address>
A number of options starting with -oM can be used to set values
associated with remote hosts on locally-submitted messages.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This means "not TCP/IP" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you want to pass some kind of "authenticating token", try -oMr.
> When I set:
>
> accept hosts = pgsql;select ip from tblsmtpafterpop \
> where ip = '$sender_host_address' and time > now();
>
> why does exim refuse to look the SQL string up if I run
> "exim -bs -oMa w.x.y.z" and w.x.y.z does not have a reverse record?
> Why does exim need a host name and why is the IP not sufficient?
It needs a name because it is not clever enough to parse your query and
realize that it is not using the host name. If the host list item isn't
recognizable as an IP address, it assumes a host name is needed. See
section 10.8.
But if you use net-pgsgl; instead, it won't look for a host name. That
says "this lookup uses the IP address".
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