RE: [exim] (host) incorrectly presented itself as....

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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [exim] (host) incorrectly presented itself as....
On 2 Aug 2005 at 16:05, Timothy Spear wrote about
    "RE: [exim] (host) incorrectly prese":


| You want to have one of the following items;

|...

As I read his post, he is sending the right name on his EHLO. He
wants to know how to get exim to use the matching interface for
outgoing connections.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: exim-users-bounces@??? [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On
| Behalf Of Jason Morehouse
| Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 4:02 PM
| To: Exim-users@???
| Subject: [exim] (host) incorrectly presented itself as....
|
| Hello,
|
| A quick problem with how my box identifies itself to remote servers
| (wrong).


From the example given, you mean it is not connecting with the source
IP address you intended.

| Here is a quick example.
|
| 192.111.111.1 - hub.mydomain.com (1st ip on box)
| 192.111.111.2 - smtp.mydomain.com (exim)
|
| Exim is configured to listen on 192.111.111.2 with:
|
| local_interfaces = 192.111.111.2 : 127.0.0.1
|
| Watching the mailog on a remote server, my server still presents itself
| as hub.mydomain.com, yet I elho smtp.mydomain.com. This gives the
| warning:
|
| * Remote host 192.111.111.1 (hub.mydomain.com) incorrectly presented
| itself as smtp.mydomain.com. *


Jason, you need to add an "interface" option to your smtp transport
to get it to use the 192.111.111.2 interface for outgoing email.
"local_interfaces" only controls listening for incoming connections.

- Fred