Re: [Exim] Trying to treat a IP as the local host

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Autor: Dave C.
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Dla: Alberto García
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Temat: Re: [Exim] Trying to treat a IP as the local host
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On Sat, 18 May 2002, Alberto [iso-8859-1] Garc?a wrote:

>     I have the following problem (I'm using Exim 3.35): I have my
> machine running Exim in my private network. There is a router with a
> public IP address that forwards all trafic to my PC. The problem is that
> when Exim tries to route mail, it does not know that the public IP of the
> router should be treated as the local host.

>
>     I think of two workarounds for this:

>
>     - Putting the public IP in local_interfaces: it does not work,
> because when the daemon tries to wake up, the bind() call fails for that
> IP address.

>
>     - Using `hosts_treat_as_local': this works, but it has the
> problem that is name-based, not ip-based, so I have to put there all the
> hosts names that point to my public IP, instead of putting just the IP.

>
>     Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

>



Try ignore_target_hosts in your lookuphost router. It takes IP
addresses.




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