Re: [Exim] SMTP "port" string expansion patch

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Adam Thornton
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP "port" string expansion patch
On 30 Oct 2003, Adam Thornton wrote:

> I found that it would be very useful to have the "port" option to smtp
> take an expanded string rather than a literal string; I'll explain the
> situation for which I needed it after the patch.


I explained earlier today that this is on the wish list. Unfortunately,
the patch you gave, though it may work for you, isn't the whole story.

Before this can be done, the keys for the retry records must be changed
from just being IP addresses, to being IP addreses + ports. Otherwise, a
failure on one port would affect connections to other ports on the same
IP address, which does not seem right. I *almost* got to do this item,
and then my new workstation arrived and I was away and now it is nearly
November and other things must take priority...


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