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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