Re: [Exim] Overriding local_interfaces with -oX?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Greg Ward
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Overriding local_interfaces with -oX?
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Greg Ward wrote:

> > Have you tried -oX 127.0.0.1.2525
>
> Yes, that worked -- thank you. Is that a temporary workaround or the
> official answer?


It's the official answer.

> What I wanted was to use
>
> exim -v -odf -oX 2525 -bd
>
> and have it be interpreted as
>
> exim -v -odf -oX 0.0.0.0.2525 -bd


That's not something I would have expected. I guess this is one of those
things where different people have different expectations.

> I was unaware/unclear that -oX took an *interface* and not just a port.


Port-only is the old Exim 3 thing; the extension is for Exim 4, and I
tried to keep it compatible for the common case when local_interfaces is
not set.

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